In the psychology of motivation, balance theory is a theory of attitude change, proposed by Fritz Heider. It conceptualizes the cognitive consistency motive...

Social balance theory is a class of theories about balance or imbalance of sentiment relation in dyadic or triadic relations with social network theory. Sentiments...

The balance of power theory in international relations suggests that states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough...

The shifting balance theory is a theory of evolution proposed in 1932 by Sewall Wright, suggesting that adaptive evolution may proceed most quickly when...

become friends by an iterative process). Frank Harary described how balance theory can predict coalition formation in international relations: One can...

possibility that one of the friendships might breakdown, according to balance theory, which his view of human triangles is called. According to Heider, the...

conception of psychological balance has been used in theoretical models measuring cognitive dissonance. According to balance theory, there are three interacting...

represents the Cambridge cash-balance theory, an alternative approach to the classical quantity theory of money. Both quantity theories, Cambridge and classical...

Gavrilets's contributions Pup Fish Evolution—UC Davis Evolution 101—Shifting Balance Theory (Figure at bottom of page) Superimposing evolutionary trajectories onto...

struggling with work–life balance were 4.4 times more likely to show symptoms of occupational burnout. Based on this theory work and family do not affect...

: 59–62  Therefore, mass balances are used widely in engineering and environmental analyses. For example, mass balance theory is used to design chemical...

principle of balance–congruity. The nodes in the principle of balance–congruity are equivalent to the concepts in Heider's balance theory, and the three...

psychological models, such as the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm and Robert Sternberg's Balance Theory, attempt to define and measure wisdom through various cognitive and...

assumption of balance theory is rooted in the philosophy that unbalanced states have a tendency to wreak havoc. Satisfying relationships require balance, otherwise...

these are Graph theory, Balance theory, Social comparison theory, and more recently, the Social identity approach. Few complete theories have been produced...

several previous theories proving this concept such as the self-inconsistency theory, the cognitive dissonance theory, and the Balance theory (e.g., Heider...

and consistency theories (e.g., Heider's balance theory, Osgood and Tannenbaum's congruity theory, and Festinger's dissonance theory). According to TRA...

In statistical physics and mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of a network when nodes or links are added. This is a geometric type...

individuals whose relationships are governed by a modified form of the Heider balance theory. In the same work in which Popper elucidates the paradox of tolerance...

The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis...

results in increased congruity for the individual. Compared to balance theory, congruity theory allows for gradations of relation between elements and introduces...

reestablish a balance. Energy sources across the whole electromagnetic spectrum need to be accounted for when calculating the energy balance. In the case...

science, network theory is a part of graph theory. It defines networks as graphs where the vertices or edges possess attributes. Network theory analyses these...

The balance of threat theory was proposed by Stephen Walt in his article Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power, published in the journal International...

match a behavior). Other theories include balance theory, originally proposed by Heider in 1958, and the self-perception theory, originally proposed by...

because of its extensive form representation. His last work was "Impulse Balance Theory and its Extension by an Additional Criterion". He was noted for his...

Interpersonal Relations, which expanded upon his creations of balance theory and attribution theory. This book presents a wide-range analysis of the conceptual...

Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports of goods over a certain time period. Sometimes, trade...

population Cluster graph, in graph theory, a disjoint union of complete graphs Clusterable graph, in balance theory Cluster algebra, a class of commutative...

could spread to the rest of the species. This was Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution. There has been much skepticism among evolutionary biologists...