Attitudes toward Romantic Love Among American, German, and Japanese Students

Simmons, Carolyn H.; Kolke, Alexander Vom; Shimizu, Hideko

doi:10.1080/00224545.1986.9713593

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“…Nevertheless, Japanese parents still seem to exert some influence over the mate choice of their children. To begin with, while most young people in Japan today insist that love is a necessary condition for marriage (Dunn, ; LeVine, Sato, Hashimoto, & Verma, ), Simmons, Vom Kolke, and Shimizu ) found that young people in Japan valued romantic love less positively than those in West Germany. The fact that across cultures an emphasis on romantic love tends to correlate negatively with the occurrence of arranged marriages (Williams, White, & Ekaidem, ), suggests that Japanese parents still influence their offspring's mate choice more than in Western cultures.…”

Section: Parent‐offspring Conflict Over Mate Choicementioning

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Parent‐offspring conflict in Japan and parental influence across six cultures

2013

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Previous research has demonstrated that parents and children often have conflicting mate preferences. The present research was conducted among 443 Japanese university students. Using an existing scale designed to uncover parentoffspring conflict over mate choice, the results revealed that children perceived having a potential partner with traits connoting poor genetic quality as being more unacceptable to themselves, and having a potential partner with traits connoting low parental investment and cooperation with the ingroup as being more unacceptable to their parent. A number of sex differences emerged. The highest potential for parentoffspring conflict existed between female offspring and their father, and female offspring also rated traits connoting low social status as being more unacceptable to their parents, particularly to the father.

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Parent‐offspring conflict in Japan and parental influence across six cultures

2013

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“…Before that, and in other cultures now, arranged marriages pursue political, economic, and other nonamorous goals. Simmons, von Molke, and Shimizu (1986) argue that traditional cultures with strong family values are especially apt to prefer arranged marriage over marriage for love. Arranged marriages are also likely to find support in high caste or elite subcultures, where family money, power, and prestige loom larger.…”

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Must Love Kill the Family Firm? Some Exploratory Evidence

Mehrotra

Mørck

Shim

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. Since family firms persist, solutions to this succession problem must exist. We submit that marriage can transfuse outside talent and reinvigorate family firms. This implies that changes to the institution of marriagenotably, a decline in arranged marriages in favor of marriages for "love"-bode ill for the survival of family firms. Consistent with this, the predominance of family firms correlates strongly across countries with plausible proxies for arranged marriage norms.

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“…It should be less valued in traditional collectivistic cultures with strong, extended family ties (Simmons, Vom Kolke, & Shimizu, 1986).…”

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