出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：In this article preferences for age of marriage partners by heterosexual men and women were investigated, by adopting an evolutionary and interdisciplinary perspective. A study was made based upon 3.000 announcements of forthcoming marriages sampled from the Brazilian newspaper Diário de Notícias de São Paulo, in September and October 1996. These announcements published in newspapers are a legal requirement to marriage. Men tended to get married to younger women and this preference became more pronounced over the life span. There was only one exception to this trend: young men under 20 years old tended to prefer someone older than themselves. Young women married with older men than themselves but this preference became less deep over the life span and even turned into the opposite. Age preferences violate thesimilarity-attraction rule, one of the strongest general principle of mate selection, but well fit with an evolutionary model.
