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This review reveals 14 principles, which collectively address four central questions: (a) What is a relationship? (b) How do relationships operate? (c) What tendencies do people bring to their relationships? (d) How does the context affect relationships?
The 14 principles paint a cohesive and unified picture of romantic relationships that reflects a strong and maturing discipline. However, the principles afford few of the sorts of conflicting predictions that can be especially helpful in fos-tering novel theory development.
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- Liking vs. Loving
- The Color Wheel Model of Love
- Triangular Theory of Love
- Attachment Theory of Love
- Compassionate vs. Passionate Love
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In 1970, psychologist Zick Rubin proposed an explanation for the difference between liking and loving.Sometimes we experience a great amount of appreciation and admiration for others. We enjoy spending time with a person and want to be around them. This is "liking," according to Rubin, and doesn't necessarily qualify as love. Love is much deeper, m...
In his 1973 book The Colors of Love, psychologist John Lee provided another theory of love, which compared styles of love to the color wheel.Just as there are three primary colors, Lee suggested that there are also three primary styles of love: 1. Eros: The term Erosstems from the Greek word meaning "passionate" or "erotic." Lee suggested that this...
In 1986, psychologist Robert Sternberg proposed the triangular theory of love.Under this theory, love has three components: 1. Intimacy 2. Passion 3. Commitment Different combinations of these three components result in different types of love. For example, combining intimacy and commitment results in compassionate love while combining passion and ...
In 1987, Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver, two researchers from the University of Denver, shared their views on the psychology of love. They theorized that romantic love is a biosocial process similar to how children form attachments with their parents. Their theory is modeled after psychologist John Bowlby's attachment theory. According to Hazan and...
In 1988, psychologist Elaine Hatfield added to our theories of love by proposing that there are two basic types of love: compassionate love and passionate love. 1. Compassionate loveis characterized by mutual respect, attachment, affection, and trust. This love usually develops out of feelings of mutual understanding and shared respect for one anot...
Many theories of love exist, hoping to provide insight into how love forms and evolves. Each one contributes to what we know about this emotion, providing several possible explanations for how love-based relationships begin, grow, and change.
Nov 28, 2018 · Discover the biological and cultural influences on mate selection in romantic relationships. Explore the findings of Buss's cross-cultural study of 10,000 participants across 37 cultures. IB Psychology Navigation
The psychology of men and masculinities is a dynamic young field that has come a long way in a relatively short time. It benefitted from the foun-dation laid by the psychology of women in conceptualizing, theorizing, and investigating the protean effects of gender.
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Jun 27, 2022 · Relationship maintenance processes include a wide range of activities and cognitions that romantic partners engage in to sustain or enhance their relationships. In this article, we review literature from the past two decades (2002–2021).
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This traditional psychology of men was, at its core, an interpretation of the variations among males in trait masculinity femininity. One direct legacy of this older psychology of men is that our discipline today is now generally termed the psychology of men and masculinity, whereas the corresponding study
