Do Birds of a Playful Feather Flock Together? Playfulness and Assortative Mating

Autor/inn/en	Chick, Garry; Proyer, René; Purrington, Andrew; Yarnal, Careen
Titel	Do Birds of a Playful Feather Flock Together? Playfulness and Assortative Mating
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 12 (2020) 2, S.178-215 (38 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Play; Intimacy; Genetics; Individual Characteristics; Undergraduate Students; Personality Traits; Humor; Marriage; Personality Measures + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Intimität; Humangenetik; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Individual characteristics; Humoristische Darstellung; Ehe
Abstract	The authors discuss assortative mating, the tendency--important for increased genetic variation--of individuals to mate with the phenotypically similar at rates greater than chance. Influenced by many factors--physical characteristics like height and weight and demographic elements like behavior and attitudes, economic status and education, church attendance and ethnic identity, politics and personality--assortative mating has been considered with regard to having a good sense of humor but never to being playful or being fun loving. Based on a study of 254 undergraduates, the authors examine how these variables correlate with the search for desirable mates by adults and suggest the variables are indeed subject to assortative mating. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01