Robert Sternberg
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Oct 30, 2026
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It lines up with a lot of psychology.
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Take Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love.
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Heard of it?
speaker_1HOST
Vaguely.
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Right, mix and match them and you get different kinds of love.
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Here's the twist.
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In Sternberg's model, passion plus intimacy, without commitment, gets labeled romantic love.
speaker_1HOST
Hold on, without commitment? So the scholarly version of romantic love is basically an affair?
Alison BatchelderHOST
Because there's different types.
Alison BatchelderHOST
So Sternberg's triangular theory is just those three.
Alison BatchelderHOST
If you imagine a triangle, it's intimacy, passion, and commitment.
Alison BatchelderHOST
So intimacy is closeness, connection, really being known.
Monika ArdeltGUEST
And then this pivoted paper was published in a chapter.
Monika ArdeltGUEST
And when the Sternberg book in 1990 came out, you know, Wisdom, Its Nature, Development, and something else, this is when I started my dissertation, you know, thinking about wisdom research in my dissertation.
Monika ArdeltGUEST
And, of course, I read the book, and, you know, definition of wisdom was all over the place, but many people referred back to Vivian Clayton's chapter with Buren, And when I read this and I learned how she defined wisdom as this combination of the three dimensions, it made so much sense to me.
Monika ArdeltGUEST
And then I applied it to data that was collected for a completely different purpose, but using the California QSOAD enhanced ego rating scales, and I basically picked item to fit into the three dimensions, and it worked actually beautifully.
Gad SaadSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So let me just mention some of the ones that caught my eyes.
Gad SaadSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, Robert Sternberg is somebody who has studied psychology of envy, among many other topics.
Gad SaadSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He used to be the president of Yale, so a, you know, a, a well-known and well-respected psychologist.
Gad SaadSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, Philip Zimbardo of the, you know, Zimbardo experiments on, you know, with, at, at Stanford, the classic experiment where you put people in, in either as-
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So a, a, a wild metaphor that nobody's ever put together, um, forces us to search for meaning, forces a kind of interaction.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
Robert Sternberg wrote about this idea that there's a kind of interaction between the topic, uh, and, and the vehicle, the, the, the two parts of the, you know, metaphor A is B, uh, that they're interacting with each other, and we're generating meaning.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So that's that generative property.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
And that's, um, potentially there.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So a, a, a wild metaphor that nobody's ever put together, um, forces us to search for meaning, forces a kind of interaction.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
Robert Sternberg wrote about this idea that there's a kind of interaction between the topic, uh, and, and the vehicle, the, the, the two parts of the, you know, metaphor A is B, uh, that they're interacting with each other and we're generating meaning.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So that's that generative property.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
And that's, um, potentially there.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So a wild metaphor that nobody's ever put together forces us to search for meaning, forces a kind of interaction.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
Robert Sternberg wrote about this idea that there's a kind of interaction between the topic itself and and the vehicle but that the two parts of the you know metaphor a is b that they're interacting with each other and we're generating meaning so that's that generative property and that's um potentially there again it's not really the metaphor it's our own cognitive machinery our own bodies our own life experience and the ways in which we are uh linguistic beings embodied linguistic beings so that we can't help but engage in some ways at that level of um of language and of constructing interpretations of things.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So there's always that possibility there in metaphor.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So whether it's helpful or not depends a lot on what we're trying to do with it and how what we bring to it in a way also, because it's not, again, it's an illusion to think it's all in the metaphor.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So a wild metaphor that nobody's ever put together forces us to search for meaning, forces a kind of interaction.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
Robert Sternberg wrote about this idea that there's a kind of interaction between the topic itself and and the vehicle but that the two parts of the you know metaphor a is b that they're interacting with each other and we're generating meaning so that's that generative property and that's um potentially there again it's not really the metaphor it's our own cognitive machinery our own bodies our own life experience and the ways in which we are uh linguistic beings embodied linguistic beings so that we can't help but engage in some ways at that level of um of language and of constructing interpretations of things.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So there's always that possibility there in metaphor.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So whether it's helpful or not depends a lot on what we're trying to do with it and how what we bring to it in a way also, because it's not, again, it's an illusion to think it's all in the metaphor.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So a, a, a wild metaphor that nobody's ever put together, um, forces us to search for meaning, forces a kind of interaction.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
Robert Sternberg wrote about this idea that there's a kind of interaction between the topic a- and, and the vehicle, the, the, the two parts of the, you know, metaphor A is B, uh, that they're interacting with each other, and we're generating meaning.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
So that's that generative property.
Laurence J. KirmayerGUEST
And that's, um, potentially there.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
We don't want it all to be about the IQ score and even the component index scores that we can get from the waste if we want to understand the person as a whole person.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
The theory of intelligence that I've always liked and encountered it many years ago is the triarchic theory of Robert Sternberg.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
And actually it was first put forward in 1985.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
So it's a very long lasting theory and obviously it's gone through its own evolutions and becoming better described.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
But basically what we're measuring on the waist is what Sternberg would call an element of confidential intelligence.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
So it's one of the components of our ability to reason and function is the score on something like the waist and the IQ that we might get.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
But actually, that's just one of three different intelligences that Sternberg puts forward.
Keith JenkinsGUEST
The other two, experiential intelligence, is really our ability to cope with novel situations in the real world and also to be able to learn how to do certain things more or less automatically without thinking.
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