Similarity also motivates the use of social proof ; when a person perceives themselves as similar to the people around them, they are more likely to adopt and perceive as correct the observed behavior of these people.

From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not.

* Alexander Bain regarded Contiguity and Similarity logically, as perfectly distinct principles, though in actual psychological occurrence blending intimately with each other, contiguous trains being started by a first ( it may be, implicit ) representation through Similarity, while the express assimilation of present to past in consciousness is always, or tends to be, followed by the revival of what was presented in contiguity with that past.

The two figures on the left are congruent, while the third is Similarity ( geometry ) | similar to them.

The two figures on the left are congruent, while the third is Similarity ( geometry ) | similar to them.

Similarity is an equivalence relation on the space of square matrices.

Similarity of matrices does not depend on the base field: if L is a field containing K as a subfield, and A and B are two matrices over K, then A and B are similar as matrices over K if and only if they are similar as matrices over L. This is quite useful: one may safely enlarge the field K, for instance to get an algebraically closed field ; Jordan forms can then be computed over the large field and can be used to determine whether the given matrices are similar over the small field.

* Petrus Camper publishes On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish ; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity, an early work of comparative anatomy.

* Similarity Enhanced Transfer, a technology used to speed up download rate of files on file sharing networks

Similarity has effects on starting a relationship by initial attraction to know each other.

Additional contributions include the Coefficient of Profile Similarity ( taking account of shape, scatter, and level of two score profiles ), the Dynamic Calculus for assessing interests and motivation, P-technique factor analysis for an occasion-by-variable matrix, the Taxonome program for ascertaining the number and contents of clusters in a data set, the Basic Data Relations Box ( assessing the dimensions of experimental designs ), sampling of variables, as opposed to or in conjunction with sampling of persons ; the group syntality construct: the " personality " of a group ; factoring or repeated measures on single individuals to study fluctuating personality states, and Multiple Abstract Variance Analysis ( MAVA ) with " specification equations " embodying genetic and environmental variables and their interactions.

* Survey on Semantic Similarity Measures ( C. d ' Amato, S. Staab, N. Fanizzi, EKAW 2008, Springer-Verlag )

Various forms of functions described as Tanimoto Similarity and Tanimoto Distance occur in the literature and on the Internet.

" The Influence of Cultural Similarity, Type of Relationship, and Self-Monitoring on Uncertainty Reduction Processes ".

In his 1778 lecture, " On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish ; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity ," he metamorphosed a horse into a human being, thus showing the similarity between all vertebrates.

* On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish ; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity ( 1778 )

The Earth Similarity Index, a scale used in planetary science, includes within its classification of habitable planets ( hClass ) a " Class M ", where the " M " stands for mesoplanet ( not to be confused with Asimov's mesoplanet proposal ), i. e., a planet with moderate ( as necessary for liquid water ) temperatures, more technically speaking: the thermal surface requirements necessary to support complex ( multicellular ) Earth-like life.

He theorized a heritable component in altruism and developed Genetic Similarity Theory, which is an extension of W. D. Hamilton's theory of kin selection.

Similarity transformations ( also called similarity laws ) help us work out how plasma properties change in order to retain the same characteristics.

Two states p and q are said to be similar, written p ≤≥ q, if p simulates q and q simulates p. Similarity is an equivalence relation, but it is coarser than bisimilarity.

Similarity of words between languages does not prove that the words are related, in much the same way as facial resemblance does not prove relatedness of people.

By contrast, the " Verb of Similarity " ( فعل المضارع, fi ' l al-mudaara ' ah ), so called because of its resemblance to the active participial noun, is considered to denote an event in the present or future without committing to a specific aspectual sense beyond the incompleteness implied by the tense: يضرب " yadribu ", he strikes / is striking / will strike / etc.

* Genetic Similarity and Ethnic Nationalism-An Attempted Sociobiological Explanation of the scientific basis for Political Group Formation.

A number of these WordNet-based word similarity algorithms are implemented in a Perl package called WordNet :: Similarity, and in a Python package called NLTK.

* Similarity scores.

Law of Similarity – The law of similarity states that elements within an assortment of objects will be perceptually grouped together if they are similar to each other.

Similarity in species of different ancestry that is the result of convergent evolution is called homoplasy.

Similarity can also result if organisms occupy similar ecological niches — that is, a distinctive way of life.

Similarity to other breeds is grounds for disqualification.

* Similarity of words: Luwian māssan ( i )-, Lycian māhān ( i ), " god.

An unimplemented () unofficial feature is Similarity Enhanced Transfer ( SET ), a technique for improving the speed at which peer-to-peer file sharing and content distribution systems can share data.

Early-Entrant Advantage, Word-of-Mouth Communication, Brand Similarity, and the Consumer Decision-Making Process.

Similarity can be defined by gender, race, age, occupation, educational achievement, status, values or any other salient characteristic.

* Tsien, HS: Similarity laws of hypersonic flows.

* Chief Networking Officer or CNO – responsible for the social capital within the company and between the company and its partners

The outcome of internal fragmentation that is observed and commented upon by customers is now visible to the rest of the world in the era of the social customer ; in the past, only employees or partners were aware of it.

Good social dancers adapt to the conventions of the dance and the responses of their partners.

The rationale behind the tripartite structure is creation of free and open debate among governments and social partners.

In each, partners may dance alone or together, with improvisation a central part of social dancing and many performance and competition pieces.

India has remained one of its biggest trading partners ; in addition India has deep social and historical links with a large portion of the population of Mauritius, India is the country's second largest source of foreign assistance.

Although a spouse is a form of significant other, the latter term also includes non-marital partners who play a social role similar to that of a spouse, but do not have rights and duties reserved by law to a spouse.

* Mixer dance, a social dance that encourages the participants to actively pursue new dance partners

However, in the same study, the authors noted that " nongenetic alternative explanations cannot be ruled out " as a reason for the heterosexual in the homosexual-heterosexual twin pair having more partners, specifically citing " social

The social partners participate actively in the development of policy.

The social partners participate actively in the development of policy.

He has argued that there is a " gender fetish " in western society, in which the gender of sexual partners is given enormously disproportionate attention over other factors involved in sexual attraction, such as age and social class.

With regards to social and economic policy, the government cooperates with its so called social partners ( trade unions and employers ' organizations ).

Although not mentioned in the constitution, political parties and the social partners organised in the Social Economic Council are important political institutions as well.

An important question in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections is whether or not these groups copulate mostly at random ( with sexual partners from throughout a population ) or within their social groups ( assortative mixing ).

Here, social partners are typically genealogically close kin, and so altruism may be able to flourish even in the absence of kin recognition and kin discrimination faculties — spatial proximity and circumstantial cues serve as a rudimentary form of discrimination.

Female northern bottlenose whales appear to form a loose network of social partners with no obvious long-term associations.

A ' Yes ' vote was urged by a massive campaign by the main parties and by civil society and the social partners, including campaigning through canvassing and all forms of media by respected pro-European figures like then EP president Pat Cox, former Czech president Václav Havel, former President of Ireland Patrick Hillery and former Taoiseach ( prime minister ) Dr. Garret Fitzgerald.

In 1810, Welsh social reformer Robert Owen, from Newtown in mid-Wales, and his partners purchased New Lanark mill from Owen's father-in-law David Dale and proceeded to introduce better labour standards including discounted retail shops where profits were passed on to his employees.

Swinging or ( rarely ) partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in which singles or partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with others as a recreational or social activity.

The five main focus points within the program are: better quality cocoa plants, train farmers, chain management, improved social circumstances and cooperation with partners.

Humans need to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance, whether it comes from a large social group, such as clubs, office culture, religious groups, professional organizations, sports teams, gangs, or small social connections ( family members, intimate partners, mentors, close colleagues, confidants ).