Guéguen N. (2012). Color and women attractiveness: when red clothed women are perceived to have more intense sexual intent. The Journal of social psychology, 152(3), 261–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2011.605398
The paper listed above has been retracted by the Editors of the Journal of Social Psychology.
This retraction came at the request of the Scientific Integrity Committee of the Journal of Social Psychology in response to a report issued by Nicholas Brown and James Heathers detailing significant irregularities in the data reported by Gueguen (2012). In particular, it was noted that table one in the manuscript had four combinations of means and standard deviations that were impossible given the reported sample sizes (of eight combinations reported in the table).
Following the receipt of this report, The Scientific Integrity Committee of the Journal of Social Psychology was convened (chair: John E. Edlund, Erin M. Buchanan, Bradley M. Okdie, Kate A. Ratliff, and Cory R. Scherer). The Scientific Integrity Committee made multiple attempts to contact Dr. Gueguen in an effort to seek an explanation for the impossible combinations of means and standard deviations to which no reply was offered. The Scientific Integrity Committee ran multiple simulations to attempt to recreate the data and concluded that the combinations of means and standard deviations of the table were impossible and were unable to identify an error that could explain the discrepancy. After discussion, the committee unanimously concluded that they could have no faith in the data reported, and recommended the retraction of the manuscript.