companionate love

a type of love characterized by strong feelings of intimacy and affection for another person rather than strong emotional arousal in the other’s presence. In these respects, companionate love is distinguished from passionate love. From the perspective of Robert J. Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, the relationship is high in intimacy and commitment.

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January 14th 2025

Kruskal–Shepard scaling

a type of multidimensional scaling applied to judgments of similarity or dissimilarity for pairs of items (e.g., cities). The dissimilarities are represented by distances between items in a highly dimensional space: Larger distances indicate greater dissimilarity. [William Henry Kruskal (1919–2005), U.S. statistician; Roger N. Shepard (1929– ), U.S. experimental and cognitive psychologist]