ERIC Number: EJ1255234
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 38
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Do Birds of a Playful Feather Flock Together? Playfulness and Assortative Mating
Chick, Garry; Proyer, René; Purrington, Andrew; Yarnal, Careen
American Journal of Play, v12 n2 p178-215 Win 2020
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.
Descriptors: Play, Intimacy, Genetics, Individual Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Humor, Marriage, Personality Measures
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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