{"id":754,"date":"2003-07-08T03:55:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T03:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:35","slug":"like-likes-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"like likes like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span>Opposites don&#8217;t attract, at least in regard to  choosing a long-term mate, say researchers at Cornell University in a  study published online last week in the <em>Proceedings of the National  Academy of Science.<\/em> Peter M. Buston  and Stephen T. Emlen  asked 978  volunteers to rank 10 attributes they valued most in a potential mate,  including wealth, physical attractiveness, and commitment to family.  They then had the respondents rate themselves on the same  characteristics. The researchers found that people who rated an  attribute important in a partner also rated themselves highly on the  same attribute.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Previous mate-choice studies have concentrated on reproductive  potential: the theory goes that men want young, healthy, attractive  women who&#8217;ll bear many children, and women want older, wealthy men who  can support their offspring. But the authors say otherwise: &#8220;Our results  suggest that individuals seeking stable long-term relationships should  not seek the highest-quality partner available, but should simply look  for partners who are similar to themselves.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/08\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposites don&#8217;t attract, at least in regard to choosing a long-term mate, say researchers at Cornell University in a study published online last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Peter M. Buston and Stephen T. Emlen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=754\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}