A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most
comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental …

Where do positive feelings about a romantic or sexual partner come from? This article offers
an overview of—and imposes some structure on—the enormous literature on mate …

Many psychological hypotheses require testing whether the similarity between two variables
predicts important outcomes. For example, the ideal standards model posits that the match …

Matchmaking companies and theoretical perspectives on close relationships suggest that
initial attraction is, to some extent, a product of two people's self-reported traits and …

Humans tend to form social relationships with others who resemble them. Whether this
sorting of like with like arises from historical patterns of migration, meso-level social …

In the present study, we sought to understand whether people in polyamorous relationships
have similar attachment orientations with each of their partners. Further, we examined the …

Although empirical research has investigated what we ideally seek in a romantic partner for
decades, the crucial question of whether ideal partner preferences actually guide our mating …

This article introduces a metatheoretical framework—the Relationship Trajectories
Framework—that conceptualizes how human mating relationships develop across their …

Personality and social relationships influence each other in multiple and consequential
ways. To understand how people differ from each other in their personality and social …

There are two unresolved puzzles in the literature examining how people evaluate mates
(ie, prospective or current romantic/sexual partners). First, compatibility is theoretically …