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Friendship and love are contrasted by love’s passionate elements—fascination, exclusiveness, and sexual desire—versus friendship’s milder passions, while both share strong practical and emotional support. In romantic love, support is framed as “giving the utmost” and “being a champion or advocate,” whereas friendship support is limited to the best/closest friendships. 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It also distinguishes how distinctive support is characterized in each relationship.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the essay characterize support in romantic love versus friendship?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"Romantic love support is characterized by “giving the utmost” and “being a champion or advocate” for the loved one. Friendship support marks only one’s best or closest friendships from ordinary friendships.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What evidence is provided for the relationship assessment scales?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Three studies were conducted to test multiple aspects of the construct and predictive validity of new relationship assessment scales. The studies provide very encouraging support for the validity of these scales.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},634998,1792675079,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":14,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":129,"read_time":144},19241458193282,"https://us-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_a8503ba1806abce46bf441b54a3ca4cd","# FRIENDSHIP AND LOVERELATIONSHIPS\n\nKeith E.Davis and Michael J.Todd  \n## ABSTRACT\n\nA paradigm case formulation of friendship and love relationships is presented.Ninesubrelations are taken to be essential features of the archetypical concept of friend-ship and eleven of the archetypical concept of romantic love.The major conceptualcontrast between friendship and love relationships is taken to lie in the contrastbetween the passionate aspects of love—particularly fascination,exclusiveness,andsexual desire—and the mlder passions of friendship,on the one hand,and thequalities of support distinctive to the two relationships.Both relationships involvevery significant support in the category of being able to count on each other in bothpractical and emotional ways,but in romantic love,the quality of support is mostappropriately characterized by\"giving the utmost\"and \"being a champion oradvocate\"of the loved one,whereas in friendship such support marks only bestor closest friendships from one's more ordinary friendships.Three studies wereconducted in which several aspects of the construct and predictive validity of a newset of relationship assessment scales were tested.These studies provided veryencouraging support for the validity of these scales.The findings and conceptual-ization are compared to results obtained by other researchers dealing with personalrelationships.  \nIn this essay our aim is to contribute to the scientific understanding ofpersonal relationships by taking two fundamental personal relation-ships—friendship and love—as central instances and by developing aconceptualization of each,and assessment procedures for research oneach.The conceptual resources that we will bring to bear are thoseavailable within Descriptive Psychology(Ossorio,1966,1969/1978,1972/1978,1981a,1981c,1981d)and his associates(Davis,1981).In particular,we shall make use of the relationship formula,the notion of status dy-namics,paradigm case formulations,and other conceptual devices toclarify the concepts of love and friendship as personal relationships.Ourwork builds on previous work,both published and unpublished,in De-scriptive Psychology,including the unpublished work by Davis(Note  \n1)and by Marshall(Note 2),the published studies by Kelling(1972,1979),and Roberts(1981).  \nThe study of personal relationship has a long tradition in the socialsciences,and we will deal briefly with some of the major alternativepoints of view.But,because our primary objective is the presentationof an original system and its associated research procedure,we do notpretend to make a comprehensive survey of the approaches to the studyof relationships.Such a survey is in preparation by Davis(Note 3).  \n## DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE STUDY OFPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS\n\nFriendship  \nAn approach to the study of personal relationship grounded in De-scriptive Psychology begins in the following way.We start with a par-adigm case formulation(PCF)which is a genuine case of friendship(Ossorio,1981d).While it is possible to have a friendship that does notinvolve mutual or reciprocal respect between the two persons involved,we have selected as our paradigm case one in which the subrelationshipslisted in Table 1 are mutual.Thus,the first person is taken to respecthis or her friend who returns the respect.The reason for this selectionof the paradigm is that mutual or reciprocal friendships are clearly gen-uine cases and ones which,furthermore,are archetypal.That is,theyconstitute the full case by virtue of which other cases are recognized asinstances of that king of thing.If no friendships involved reciprocal trust,respect,or confiding,then our concept of such personal relationshipswould be quite different from what they are.Following Ossorio's(1981d)rule of thumb that,in picking one's paradigm case,one wants not onlya genuine case but a complex one,we have in Table 1 gone in thedirection of picking a very elaborate case.Such elaboration allows us  \n## Table 1.Relationships for the 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Relationships for the Paradigm Cases of Friendship and Love","[{\"question\":\"What is the main conceptual contrast between friendship and romantic love in the essay?\",\"answer\":\"The essay contrasts love’s passionate aspects—especially fascination, exclusiveness, and sexual desire—with the milder passions of friendship. It also distinguishes how distinctive support is characterized in each relationship.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay characterize support in romantic love versus friendship?\",\"answer\":\"Romantic love support is characterized by “giving the utmost” and “being a champion or advocate” for the loved one. Friendship support marks only one’s best or closest friendships from ordinary friendships.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence is provided for the relationship assessment scales?\",\"answer\":\"Three studies were conducted to test multiple aspects of the construct and predictive validity of new relationship assessment scales. 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