There is increasing interest in the study of individual differences in playfulness in adults; the way people frame or reframe situations in a way that they are experienced as personally interesting, and/or intellectually stimulating, and/or entertaining. In this review, we describe and discuss its role for romantic life. After a brief introduction, we will describe theoretical approaches as to why playfulness is important in romantic life (e.g., the signal theory of playfulness) and give an overview on empirical findings on assortative mating and its role in romantic relationships (e.g., for relationship satisfaction). Finally, we discuss future directions on playfulness in romantic life and singles and open research questions.

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成人嬉戏：关于个人差异变量的研究及其在浪漫生活中的作用的更新

对成年人嬉戏性个体差异的研究越来越引起人们的兴趣。人们以个人兴趣和/或智力上的刺激和/或娱乐性的方式来构架或重新构架情境的方式。在这篇评论中，我们描述并讨论了它在浪漫生活中的作用。在简要介绍之后，我们将描述关于嬉戏为何在浪漫生活中很重要的理论方法（例如，嬉戏的信号理论），并概述关于配偶交配及其在浪漫关系中的作用的经验发现（例如，对于关系满意度） ）。最后，我们讨论浪漫生活中的嬉戏和单身的未来方向，并提出开放性研究问题。