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Controlling forever love
A stable and rewarding love relationship is considered a key ingredient for happiness in Western culture. Building a successful long-term relationship can be viewed as a control engineering problem, where the control variable is the effort to be made to keep the relationship alive and well. We intro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8716042/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34965275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260529 |
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author | Herrera de la Cruz, Jorge Rey, José-Manuel |
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description | A stable and rewarding love relationship is considered a key ingredient for happiness in Western culture. Building a successful long-term relationship can be viewed as a control engineering problem, where the control variable is the effort to be made to keep the relationship alive and well. We introduce a new mathematical model for the effort control problem of a couple in love who wants to stay together forever. The problem can be naturally formulated as a dynamic game in continuous time with nonlinearities. Adopting a dynamic programming approach, a tractable computational formulation of the problem is proposed together with an accompanying algorithm to find numerical solutions of the couple’s effort problem. The computational analysis of the model is used to explore feeling trajectories, effort control paths, happiness, and stabilization mechanisms for different types of successful couples. In particular, the simulation analysis provides insight into the pattern of change of both marital quality and effort making in intact marriages and how they are affected by certain level of heterogamy in the couple. |
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spelling | pubmed-87160422021-12-30 Controlling forever love Herrera de la Cruz, Jorge Rey, José-Manuel PLoS One Research Article A stable and rewarding love relationship is considered a key ingredient for happiness in Western culture. Building a successful long-term relationship can be viewed as a control engineering problem, where the control variable is the effort to be made to keep the relationship alive and well. We introduce a new mathematical model for the effort control problem of a couple in love who wants to stay together forever. The problem can be naturally formulated as a dynamic game in continuous time with nonlinearities. Adopting a dynamic programming approach, a tractable computational formulation of the problem is proposed together with an accompanying algorithm to find numerical solutions of the couple’s effort problem. The computational analysis of the model is used to explore feeling trajectories, effort control paths, happiness, and stabilization mechanisms for different types of successful couples. In particular, the simulation analysis provides insight into the pattern of change of both marital quality and effort making in intact marriages and how they are affected by certain level of heterogamy in the couple. Public Library of Science 2021-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8716042/ /pubmed/34965275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260529 Text en © 2021 Herrera de la Cruz, Rey https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Herrera de la Cruz, Jorge Rey, José-Manuel Controlling forever love |
title | Controlling forever love |
title_full | Controlling forever love |
title_fullStr | Controlling forever love |
title_full_unstemmed | Controlling forever love |
title_short | Controlling forever love |
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topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8716042/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34965275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260529 |
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