For some people, attractive wives and high status husbands enhance marital quality

Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 11:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers found that maximizing men -- those who seek to make the 'best' choice -- who had attractive wives were more satisfied at the start of their marriages than maximizing men who had less attractive wives, and maximizing women who had high status husbands experienced less steep declines in satisfaction over time than maximizing women who had low status husbands.

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