Body weight and matching with a physically attractive romantic partner

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1287-1296

  Carmalt, Julie H ^a   Cawley, John ^a   Joyner, Kara ^b   Sobal, Jeffery ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; Attraction; Dyadic couple data; Mate selection; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749103435     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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