Assortative mating for Dark Triad: Evidence of positive, initial, and active assortment

Assortative mating without assortative preference.

Assortative mating--marriage of a man and a woman with similar social characteristics--is a commonly observed phenomenon. In the existing literature in both sociology and economics, this phenomenon has mainly been attributed to individuals' conscious preferences for assortative mating. In this paper, we show that patterns of assortative mating may arise from another structural source even if in...

Assortative Mating for Body Weight: New Evidence from Multilevel Models

Assortative Mating for Emotional Intelligence

Assortative mating has been studied on a broad range of variables, including intelligence and personality traits. In the present study we analysed the effect of assortative mating for ability emotional intelligence (EI) on a sample of heterosexual couples (N = 382), including dating and married couples. Correlation analyses revealed moderate similarity of Pearson's r = .27 for general EI score,...

Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data

We show that changes in assortative mating patterns along the dimensions of age, ethnicity, religion and education are not responsible for the increasing marital instability over the last four decades in Austria. Without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and reli...

The Dark Triad & Short-Term Mating 1 Running head: THE DARK TRIAD & SHORT-TERM MATING In press at the European Journal of Personality The Dark Triad: Facilitating a short-term mating strategy in men

This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term mating but not long-term mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term mating behav...