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Blue Hair and the Blues: Dying Your Hair Unnatural Colours is Associated with Depression
A number of lines of evidence, such as studies of religious converts and members of conspicuous subcultures, have found a relationship between holding and expressing a strong counter-cultural identity and mental instability. Here we test whether dying your hair an unnatural colour – something which conspicuously expresses non-conformity – is related to mental instability, using a large dataset of online daters (OKCupid dataset, about n=14k used in this study). We find the expected pattern, which was moderate in size (p = -033 to -0.23, depending on controls). This pattern persisted even when controls for age, race, sex, sexual orientation, body type, intelligence, polyamory, vegetarianism, and political beliefs were included.
One response to “Mental illness haircuts: the science”
You have to watch amateur psych hour…—one phrase of critique I heard on a morning show was “you don’t love yourself.”
There is no right answer to that—you’re either self-loathing or a narcissist.
In politics at least…if you’re explaining, you’re losing.
I remember when “Blue Hair” meant old bags. The rumor was they saw blue as brown.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/643186/why-old-ladies-have-blue-hair
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bluehair