PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Assortative Mating, Selective School, David Buss

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

3 mechanisms of social interaction: *diagram in lecture slide* Personality interacts w/ situations in 3 ways: selection, evocation, manipulation. Personality characteristics of others influence whether we select them as friends, dates, or mates. Our personality characteristics play role in kinds of situations we select to enter & stay in. Beyond love, top choices were personality characteristics (dependable character, emotional stability, pleasing disposition) Assortative mating for personality: the search for the similar. Assortative mating: ppl married to ppl who are similar to themselves. Couples show positive correlation on variety of features, both physical (e. g. , height, earlobe length) & personality traits. Are these positive correlations caused by active selection of mates who are similar, or by- products of others causes (e. g. , sheer proximity)? https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=lqkdedzhnfu. Botwin et al. (1997): correlations b/w preferences for ideal personality characteristics in a mate & actual personality characteristics of obtained mate. Consistently (modest, but) positive correlations: ppl seem to get mates they want in terms of personality.