The Importance of Preferences in Marriage

It's hard to disentangle what reflects the choices and what reflects the marriage market aspect of who we met, says Stephen. The anthropologist Helen Fisher in her work with the dating company Match.com has spent the past 13 years trying to understand what Americans are looking for in a partner. We do know that people tend to fall in love with somebody from the same ethnic and socioeconomic background but you can walk into a room and everybody is from your background level of education,. etc., and you don't fell in love with all of them.