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The mental process by which a person in love steadily covers the image of another with imagined perfections, so that small facts about the beloved keep suggesting new virtues. Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) named this process crystallization in his 1822 book De l'amour, comparing it to a bare bough left in a salt mine that comes out sheathed in glittering crystals. The referent is a change in how one mind perceives another, traced through introspection and writing, and it has nothing to do with a solid forming in a beaker, a store of learned knowledge, or the fit between someone's rank on different social ladders.[1]
The formation and growth of an ordered, repeating solid out of a disordered fluid such as a solution, melt, or vapour, beginning when scattered atoms cluster into a stable seed and continuing as more units attach to its faces. Volmer and Weber's 1926 Keimbildung in übersättigten Gebilden gave the first quantitative theory of how such seeds form in a supersaturated phase, refined by Becker and Döring in 1935 and reviewed for crystals by De Yoreo and Vekilov in 2003. The referent is a physical phase change followed in the laboratory, and it is unrelated to a lover's idealizing, a store of learned ability, or a pattern across social rankings.[2][3][4]
The degree to which a person holds a consistent position across separate ladders of social standing such as income, education, occupation, and ethnic rank. Lenski's 1954 Status Crystallization: A Non-Vertical Dimension of Social Status introduced the term and argued that people whose ranks disagree, for example high education but low income, differ politically and psychologically from those whose ranks line up. The referent is a property of an individual's spread across social hierarchies, computed from survey data, and it is not a solid growing from a fluid, a lover's idealizing, or a fixed body of learned knowledge.[5]
The part of general ability that consists of knowledge and skills a person has built up through education and experience, such as vocabulary and learned facts, as opposed to raw reasoning power. Cattell's 1963 Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence: A critical experiment split general intelligence into a fluid component that solves novel problems and a crystallized component that grows with schooling and tends to hold up across adult life. The referent is a measured dimension of a person's mind estimated from test scores, and it shares nothing with a solid forming from a fluid, a lover's idealizing, or the alignment of someone's social ranks.[6]
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