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A simple example of a preference order over three goods, in which orange is preferred to a banana, but an apple is preferred to an orange. In economics, and in other social sciences, preference refers to an order by which an agent, while in search of an "optimal choice", ranks alternatives based on their respective utility.
Propinquity can mean physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things ("like-attracts-like"). Two people living on the same floor of a building, for example, have a higher propinquity than those living on different floors, just as two people with similar political beliefs possess a higher propinquity than ...
Within the realm of social psychology, the proximity principle accounts for the tendency for individuals to form interpersonal relations with those who are close by. Theodore Newcomb first documented this effect through his study of the acquaintance process, which demonstrated how people who interact and live close to each other will be more ...
In psychology, preferences refer to an individual's attitude towards a set of objects, typically reflected in an explicit decision-making process. [1] The term is also used to mean evaluative judgment in the sense of liking or disliking an object, as in Scherer (2005), [2] which is the most typical definition employed in psychology.
Voters rank candidates by proximity, i.e. the closest candidate is their first preference, the second-closest is their second preference, and so on. Then, the median voter theorem says that the candidate closest to the median voter is a majority-preferred (or Condorcet) candidate. In other words, this candidate preferred to any one of their ...
The principles of similarity and proximity often work together to form a Visual Hierarchy. Either principle can dominate the other, depending on the application and combination of the two. For example, in the grid to the left, the similarity principle dominates the proximity principle; the rows are probably seen before the columns.
The refrain of parents is “I love all my children equally.” But not all kids get treated equally. Experts explain the impact of preferential treatment in a family.
Proximity, a science fiction drama film; Proximity fuze, a fuze that detonates an explosive device automatically when the distance to the target becomes smaller than a predetermined value; Proximity sensor, a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact; Proximity space, or nearness space, in topology