## Metadata - Author: [[matt-huston|Matt Huston]] - Full Title:: Our Relationships, in Five Dimensions - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://psyche.co/notes-to-self/research-suggests-our-relationships-differ-on-five-dimensions?utm_source=rss-feed - Read date:: [[2025-07-08]] ## Highlights > a [proposed](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02122-8) ‘unified framework’ for capturing how people see relationships. Researchers asked people from 19 world regions to rate the features of various types of relationships, ranging from *siblings* to *leader and follower* to *fans of opposing sports teams*. They found that relationships could be described in terms of five main dimensions: > • **Formality**: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; > • **Activeness**: how close and involved vs distant; > • **Valence**: how friendly vs hostile; > • **Exchange**: how much it involves trading concrete resources like money vs intangible things like affection; and > • **Equality**: how equal each person’s power is in the relationship. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jzkaxhegtz5n21ykejbgff9h))