This seems to indicate that
assortative mating does not play a strong role in our sample to start with.
Assortative mating for psychiatric disorders and psychological traits.
2000), and that, in turn, promote
assortative mating preferences (Calkins & Parker 2005; Rull et al.
Perhaps as a result, the rate of
assortative mating for black women with college degrees is much lower than that for white women.
(2006) have shown there is
assortative mating for a romantic partner in personality along with preference for higher or lower levels of particular traits in an ideal partner.
A variety of mechanisms permit
assortative mating and allow genetically distinct but reproductively compatible populations of species to persist in the same habitat.
Assortative mating and partner influence on antisocial behavior across the life course.
This indicates that patients with bipolar disorder might tend to choose partners who also suffer from mental illness, a pattern known as
assortative mating.
The research team found that pleiotropy and
assortative mating were about equally responsible for the genetic connection between height and IQ.
Finally, 40%-60%-of caregivers qualify for a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder; as with depression, the nonbiological relatives were more symptomatic than were the blood relatives, lending support to the theory of
assortative mating.
Significant
assortative mating based on colorimetric phenotype occurred on the colony, but a low number of L.