HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Heterogamy, Physical Attractiveness
14 Dec 2018
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Marrying someone who is different vs one who shares the same characteristics. Heterogamy - pairing up with someone who is different. Homogamy - pairing up with someone that shares characteristics. Recently, studies concentrate on homogamy in terms of personality characteristics. Opposites attract - not true for marriage. We choose partners who are similar - hypothesis: Ethnicity / race / socioeconomic status can interact with choice of partner. Endogamous in ethnicity - usually also in education and socioeconomic status. Physical appearance - people become involved with those who are similar in physical attractiveness. More important for men (7. 7 vs 6. 8 out of 10) Marital status - people divorced choose divorced etc. Mental health - people with disorders choose others with disorders. Mating gradient: tendency for husbands to be more advanced with regards to age, education, and occupational success. Converse - men at bottom have trouble finding wife. Heterogeneous groups encourage intermarriage - still people seek to keep same status.
