Do Birds of a Playful Feather Flock Together? Playfulness and Assortative Mating

• Published in: American journal of play Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 178 - 215
• Main Authors: Chick, Garry, Proyer, Rene, Purrington, Andrew, Yarnal, Careen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rochester The Strong 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Anopheles; Attachment Behavior; Attitudes; Behavior; Birds; Body Composition; Buss, David M; Cognitive Ability; College students; Comedy; Cultural Context; Economic Status; Education; Educational Attainment; Environmental Influences; Equilibrium; Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Family (Sociological Unit); Genetics; Genotype & phenotype; Group Membership; Height; Humor; Identity; Individual Characteristics; Interpersonal Attraction; Intimacy; Marriage; Mental Disorders; Miller, Geoffrey F; Neurophysiology; Obesity; Personality; Personality Measures; Personality Traits; Physical Characteristics; Racial Identification; Scientific Concepts; Social Attitudes; Social Characteristics; Social Class; Socioeconomic Background; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomic Status; Undergraduate Students

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...