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Gottman has been studying marital interaction for almost 25 years, by watching how couples interact in his lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.
In order to marry polygynously, men have to compensate for the loss in women's utility due to lower marital interaction.
Each individual values consumption, spending time together (the amount of marital interaction with the mate), number of offspring and future incomes of children.
All else equal, a woman's utility decreases with the number of women in the household since, as the number of woman increases, the marital interaction per wife decreases.
If she is involved in polygyny, she enjoys less utility due to a lower amount of marital interaction compared to what she would enjoy in a monogamous marriage.
In this section, I argue that keeping the difference constant between utility derived from the amount of marital interaction in monogamous mating and in polygynous mating is harmless.
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A broader investigation of the present results, considering cultural differences, especially in marital interactions, seems to be helpful to the understanding of those relations between chronicity and environmental with respect to marital influencing variables.
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