Eight thousand women over age 80
across the U.S. are being enlisted to help the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences researchers determine how much, how vigorous and what
types of physical activity are necessary to maintain cardiovascular health and prevent injury from falls in later life.
The differential degree to which
types of similarity were perceived could be due to actual differences in similarity
across these dimensions, but also could have occurred to the degree that it is easier to project certain attributes (
activity interests, attitudes) than others (e.g., background characteristics,
physical attributes) onto a partner.