The Dating Preferences of Liberals and Conservatives

Political Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 519-538

  Klofstad, Casey A ^a   McDermott, Rose ^b   Hatemi, Peter K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human mate choice; Ideology; Mate assortation; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883749645     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-012-9207-z     Document Type: Article

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