Two samples of married couples, one from the mainland United States and one from Hawaii, show matching for physical attractiveness. The samples include young and recently married, middle-aged, and older couples. When age effects on attractiveness are partialled out, the spouse correlations are .30 and .25 for mainland and Hawaiian couples, respectively. These data suggest that the matching phenomenon is stable within and across generations.
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