![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090116000249im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Men are Red, Women are Green, Brown Researcher Finds
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December 8, 2008
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Michael J. Tarr, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown University, has discovered a difference in skin tone associated with gender. His paper, "Gender Recognition of Human Faces Using Color," is to be published online this week in the journal Psychological Science. It may have wide implications for research and industry.
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