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...unique feature of Buss's study is that "it deals with an elite group of highly educated people," he said. "This group is almost never examined in terms of the mating process," Buss added...
...goal of the study is to learn more about how couples come together and interact with one another, Buss said. Buss added that human mate selection is a very complicated process which can be studied in many ways...
...date, 44 couples, most of whom learned of the study through advertisements and posters, have participated in the study. Buss said that he hopes to have finished the study of a total of 60 couples within 10 days. Volunteers are paid $25 to take part in the survey, which takes a total of about five and one-half hours to complete...
...Buss asks each member of a couple to answer the same questions about themselves and about their partner. He then compares the responses to look for similarities and differences in such diverse things as height, social actions, and personality dispositions...
...many types of data used in the study make it unique among studies of the mating process, said Buss. "There are problems with every method used in the social sciences," he said. "We employ several methods to get results which are not method-bound...