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Relational models theory
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<p>Relational models theory (RMT) is a theory of <a href="/facts/Interpersonal_relationships/rxgcYdBC">interpersonal relationships</a>, authored by anthropologist <a href="/facts/Alan_Fiske/18EgSUcK">Alan Fiske</a> and initially developed from his fieldwork in <a href="/facts/Burkina_Faso/L3zPAJwx">Burkina Faso</a>. RMT proposes that all human interactions can be described in terms of just four "relational models", or elementary forms of human relations: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching and market pricing (to these are added the limiting cases of asocial and null interactions, whereby people do not coordinate with reference to any shared principle). </p><p>RMT influenced Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations theory and Steven Pinker's theory of indirect speech. </p>