Lykken D T, Tellegen A
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0344.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1993 Jul;65(1):56-68. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.65.1.56.
Pairs of middle-aged twins and their spouses provided data on 74 mainly psychological variables. Neither spousal similarity nor idiosyncratic criteria could account for specific mate selection in these 738 couples. Of the twins (and their spouses), 547 independently rated their initial attraction to their twin's mate (or to their spouse's twin): Findings suggest that characteristics both of the chooser and the chosen constrain mate selection only weakly. This article proposes that it is romantic infatuation that commonly determines the final choice from a broad field of potential eligibles and that this phenomenon is inherently random, in the same sense as is imprinting in precocial birds.
中年双胞胎夫妇及其配偶提供了74个主要心理变量的数据。在这738对夫妻中，配偶相似性和特质标准都无法解释特定的配偶选择。在双胞胎（及其配偶）中，547人独立评估了他们对双胞胎配偶（或配偶的双胞胎）的最初吸引力：研究结果表明，选择者和被选择者的特征对配偶选择的限制都很弱。本文提出，通常是浪漫的迷恋决定了从广泛的潜在合适对象中做出的最终选择，而且这种现象本质上是随机的，就像早成鸟的印记一样。
