liking scale

a measure of a person’s degree of attraction to another individual, usually involving a willingness to be in the other’s company as well as a positive evaluation of the other’s personality characteristics. One such scale was published by U.S. social psychologist Zick Rubin (1944– ) in 1970. Although Rubin distinguished between this measure and his love scale, studies have shown that the two indices are usually positively correlated.

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November 22nd 2024

spaying

n. the surgical removal of the ovaries of a female mammal as a sterilization procedure.