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In particular, we focused on the potential confounding effects of assortative mating, or how people tend to mate with those who share similar characteristics with them.

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2022

One common form of mate choice, called assortative mating, is an individual’s preference to mate with partners who are phenotypically similar to themselves.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

“Harvard already did the selecting we looked for. It was just an early example of assortative mating.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2019

Men and women tend to consort with and marry others who are of similar characteristics, what psychologists call assortative mating.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2019

Reflection will show that with respect to any given trait there are three ways of mating: random, assortative and preferential.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul