All articles tagged with #assortative mating
A large-scale study of over 6 million couples across Taiwan, Denmark, and Sweden found that partners are more likely to share similar psychiatric diagnoses, possibly due to assortative mating, shared environments, attachment styles, and social identity factors, though the study is observational and does not establish causality.
A study involving over 97,000 families suggests that assessing parental traits related to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders may provide a more accurate method of predicting the prevalence and severity of these conditions in children than genetic screening alone. The research highlights the influence of assortative mating based on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits in increasing the risk and potentially severity of these disorders in offspring. Understanding how both parents contribute to their child’s diagnosis could inform genetic counseling and the development of therapeutic intervention plans for affected children.
A meta-analysis examining correlations between human mating partners reveals that people tend to form partnerships with others who are similar to themselves, with education, social attitudes, and substance use showing the highest correlations. The study suggests that these correlations may have cultural contingencies and highlights the importance of studying partner correlations across a wide variety of traits.
People on dating apps tend to prefer potential partners who have similar levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion. Participants in a study evaluated 100 different online dating profiles and showed a preference for profiles that were perceived as more agreeable, emotionally stable, and introverted. However, there were no significant effects for perceived conscientiousness or openness, suggesting that these traits did not strongly influence the number of matches a profile received. The study supports the idea that people display assortative preferences in the context of online dating, particularly for the personality traits agreeableness and openness.