FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Assortative Mating

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Choose partners based on certain traits: homogamy. Choose individuals with traits similar to our own. Similarity provides context for relaionship in which diferent skills/interests become complementary. Someone who ills in the gaps, may love cooking while you hate it: must be a delicate balance, too many diferences can cause driting apart. Choose someone who is atainable - not our ideal. Behaviours that are expected of a person in a speciic posiion in a group. How we actually funcion in the relaionship compared to how we expected we would funcion. How our partner funcions in the relaionship compared to how we expected them to funcion. Sensaion-seekers of both genders preferred a dominant partner. Suscepibility to boredom and disinhibiion were correlated with preference for a dominant partner. Society has a narrow view of who should/can be sexual o. Therefore, some groups may be disadvantaged in the daing marketplace: o. Persons with disabiliies: older persons, paricularly older women.