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  2. Interpersonal attraction - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, interpersonal attraction is most-frequently measured using the Interpersonal Attraction Judgment Scale developed by Donn Byrne. [1] It is a scale in which a subject rates another person on factors such as intelligence, knowledge of current events, morality, adjustment, likability, and desirability as a work partner.

  3. Social distance - Wikipedia

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    The members of two groups might interact with each other quite frequently, but this does not always mean that they will feel "close" to each other or that normatively they will consider each other as the members of the same group. In other words, interactive, normative and affective dimensions of social distance might not be linearly associated ...

  4. Interpersonal relationship - Wikipedia

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    Two popular definitions of love are Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love and Fisher's theory of love. [4] [5] [6] Sternberg defines love in terms of intimacy, passion, and commitment, which he claims exist in varying levels in different romantic relationships. Fisher defines love as composed of three stages: attraction, romantic love, and ...

  5. Reciprocal liking - Wikipedia

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    Reciprocal liking has a significant impact on human attraction and the formation of relationships. [2] People that reciprocally have a liking for each other typically initiate or develop a friendship or romantic relationship. Feelings of admiration, affection, love, and respect are characteristics for reciprocal liking between the two ...

  6. Investment model of commitment - Wikipedia

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    In order to test this theory, a longitudinal study was performed in which married participants were mailed a questionnaire to fill out asking various questions about the relationship, regarding satisfaction, investments, and quality of alternatives. Of the couples who participated, 34% were asked to take the questionnaire again 18 months later ...

  7. Intimate relationship - Wikipedia

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    An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves emotional or physical closeness between people and may include sexual intimacy and feelings of romance or love. [1] Intimate relationships are interdependent, and the members of the relationship mutually influence each other. [2]

  8. Theories of love - Wikipedia

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    They asked other groups of participants to judge how weird or natural those sentences sounded when the word "love" in those definitions was substituted by targeted sub-category terms. When a prototypical sub-type substituted, such as friendship, the sentence sounded subjectively natural. However, when a peripheral sub-type, such as infatuation ...

  9. Endowment effect - Wikipedia

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    In other words, participants are not explicitly incentivized to reveal the extent to which they truly like or value the good. The endowment effect can be equated to the behavioural model willingness to accept or pay (WTAP) , a formula sometimes used to find out how much a consumer or person is willing to put up with or lose for different outcomes.