Is spousal similarity for personality a matter of convergence or selection?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 827-830

  Humbad, Mikhila N ^a   Donnellan, M Brent ^a   Iacono, William G ^b   McGue, Matthew ^b   Burt, S Alexandra ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Personality similarity; Spousal convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955918762     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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