While it is true that the youngest infants don't distinguish colors as well as older infants, by two months of age, most babies can tell the difference between most colors and white. Do they prefer particular colors? In 1975, M.H. Bornstein exposed infants to eight different pure colors of the same luminance and found that they looked longer at red and blue, and less at greenish colors like blue-green and especially yellow-green. This study may have been the inspiration for the yellow-green "Mr. Yuck" stickers intended to discourage toddlers from playing with poisonous substances. But there are some problems with Bornstein's study... - Kaylin Quinn