Assortative marriage for physical characteristics in newlyweds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8316399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Pennock‐Román (University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-190 |
| Publication date | 1984-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330640212 |
| PMID | 6465308 |
| OpenAlex | W1985702410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
The objective of this study was to estimate the degree of spouse resemblance in the first 6 months of marriage and to compare these estimates with those of previous studies on long‐standing marriages. The participants, 215 couples, were selected from the marriage licenses issued in two counties within the San Francisco Bay Area. They attended one of several group sessions in which questionnaires were filled out and forearm length measurements were taken. Only the results for the couples of European ancestry (N = 164) are presented here since the other subsamples were too small to analyze separately. The husband‐wife correlations for body size were found to be essentially equal to those in long‐standing marriages. Thus, it appears that physical resemblance in couples is the result of initial assortment rather than convergence arising from long cohabitation. A significant residual husband‐wife correlation for weight was found after statistically partialing out height. It may be that assortative marriage for food habits and attractiveness produces spouse resemblance in weight, independently of height. Alternatively, convergence in eating habits may occur during courtship and the early months of marriage which may increase the resemblance in weight. There was very little homogamy for eye color independently of race, and no evidence of assortative marriage for handedness
Assortative mating · Attractiveness · Biology · Cohabitation · Convergence (economics) · Courtship · Economics · Geography · Physical attractiveness · Population · Sociology · Spouse · Wife · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2023 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |