The predictive
validity of ideal partner preferences: A review and meta - analysis.
Obviously irreligious, even from the standpoint of the absolutist religions, however, is the cynical attitude that rejects
the validity of ideals and the reality of value distinctions.
When we test the predictive
validity of ideals, we are asking the question: Does the extent to which a partner matches my ideals predict how positively I evaluate him / her?
Not exact matches
This suspicion
of the
validity of Western
ideals fueled the Communist parliamentary election victories in the»90s, and the subsequent emergence
of Vladimir Putin as the dominant political leader in Russia.
Rather, the issue is the
validity of a family
ideal that is believed to be biblical.
Second, Whitehead recognizes a valid use for pragmatic considerations in the evaluation
of the
validity of perception,
ideals, and philosophy (PR 275, 411, 512; FR 64f; MT 144; 5 31).
As a confirmation
of the
validity of this form
of cardiovascular conditioning, extensive research by NASA in the early 1980's led to the conclusion that infrared stimulation
of cardiovascular function would be the
ideal way to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space flights.
Of course Aristotelian logic and science opposes all that Platonic - like dual reality / dual logic stuff; the Aristotelian approach being just secular logic and secular observations... Aristotelian approach says: no higer «a priori»
validity, no higher «
ideal» realm, or higher «
ideal» logic.
Participants received the Diener's Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985), a five - item measure
of global life satisfaction (e.g., «In most ways, my life is close to my
ideal») that has been found to have good internal reliability, test - reliability, and
validity.
Predictive
Validity of Ideal Partner Preferences (Preferences as Independent Variable): Do we desire romantic partners who match our
ideals more than partners who do not?