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This guide offers practical, research-informed advice on selecting a life partner, combining psychological tests, checklists, and counseling insights to assess personal readiness, distinguish infatuation from lasting love, and evaluate compatibility. It examines sexual development and intimacy, common personality pitfalls, family-background and occupational influences, and the traits linked to marital satisfaction, while warning against mismatches and high-risk character types. Readers are shown how to test themselves and prospective mates, interpret results, and prepare emotionally and practically for marriage and early married life. Appendices list further reading and counseling resources to support couples before and after marriage.

How to Pick a Mate

HOW TO
PICK A MATE

THE GUIDE
TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE

BY

DR. CLIFFORD R. ADAMS

Associate Professor of Psychology and Director
of the Marriage Counseling Service, Pennsylvania
State College. Member of the American
Association of Marriage Counselors. Director
of the Woman’s Home Companion Marriage
Clinic.

AND

VANCE O. PACKARD

Staff Writer, The American Magazine

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC.
1946