Choose from heterosexual partners: a study of banns of marriage

Authors

  • Emma Otta
  • Renato da Silva Queiroz
  • Lucila de Sousa Campos
  • Monika Weronika Dowbor da Silva
  • Mariana Telles Silveira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v2i1.7649

Keywords:

mate selection, evolution, reproductive strategies

Abstract

Is this article preferences for age of marriage partners by heterosexual men and women were investigated, by adopting an evolutionary and interdisciplinary perspective. A study was made based upon 3.000 announcements of forthcoming marriages sampled from the Brazilian newspaper Diário de Notícias de São paulo, in September and October 1996. These announcements published in newspapers are a legal requirement to marriage. Men tended to get married to younger women and this preference became more pronounced over the life span. There was only one exception to this trend: young men under 20 years ond tended to prefer someone older than themselves. Young women married with older men that themselves but this preference became less deep over the life span and even turned into the opposite. Age preferences violate the similarity-attraction rule, one of the strongest general principle of mate selection, but well fit with an evolutionary model.

Keywords: mate selection, evolution, reproductive strategies.

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Otta, E., Queiroz, R. da S., Campos, L. de S., da Silva, M. W. D., & Silveira, M. T. (1998). Choose from heterosexual partners: a study of banns of marriage. Interação Em Psicologia, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v2i1.7649

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (1998)

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