01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Assortative Mating, Personality Psychology, David Buss
28 May 2016
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Personality interacts with situations in three ways. Personality characteristics of others influence whether we select them as dates, friends, or marriage partners. Own personality characteristics play role in kinds of situations we select to enter and stay in. Personality characteristics of others evoke responses in us. Own personality characteristics evoke responses in others. Personality is linked to ways in which we try to influence or manipulate others. Personality characteristics desired in a marriage partner (buss et al. , 1990) Over 10,000 participants, from 37 samples in 33 countries, six continents, five islands. Mutual attraction/love is the most favored characteristic. Almost as important are personality characteristics of dependable character, emotional stability, pleasing disposition. Assortative mating for personality: the search for the similar. Assortative mating: people are married to people who are similar to themselves. Are these positive correlations caused by active selection of mates who are similar, or by-products of other causal processes (e. g. , sheer proximity)
