7. What is your minimum requirement in a mate?
When it comes to mate choice, parents value certain traits differently in a mate for their children, than their children in a mate for themselves.
Once you've thought of all the traits you want in a mate, prioritise them.
We toasted and feted and made happy noises about her soon-to-be-husband's fantastic choice in a mate.
Like so many New York singles, Ms. Walzer kept a precise mental inventory of what she wanted in a mate.
By 1996, intelligence and education had moved up to No. 5 on men's ranking of desirable qualities in a mate.
The article "Opposites Attract?" reports the results of a study that used a questionnaire about people's preferences in a mate.
After an annulment, Ms. Smith drew up a list of what she was looking for in a mate.
As just about everybody knows, what people say they want in a mate, what they think they want in a mate and what they actually want in a mate as evidenced by whom they choose to date usually entail very different sets of characteristics.
These days, what evolutionary psychologists have mainly noted about the sexes is that they look for different things in a mate.
Re "Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love" (Findings, Jan . 29: I concur that people often think they know what they want in a mate.
