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The authors conducted a psychiatric study of the wives of convicted felons that reveals an example of assortative mating. The wives, like their husbands, come from grossly disturbed family backgrounds and show the same psychopathology seen among their husbands' first-degree female relatives.
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Guzé et al. (1970) studied this question.
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