CR Chapter 8: Love

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Intimacy =

Liking

Should we love our spouses?

Marital status

The Coolidge Effect

Mating with novel females after mating to satiety with one female (animals)

Should love involve same or other-sex partners?

Sexuality

triangular theory of love

Sternberg, 1986

T/F: Any form of physiological arousal can increase our feelings of passionate attraction

True

Is passionate love also cognitive?

Yes

Romantic love tends to decline over time for love marriages but increases for

arranged marriages

6 love styles

eros, ludus, storge, mania, agape, pragma

eros

erotic, with a strong physical component

3 main components of the triangular theory of love

intimacy, passion, commitment

ludus

playful and uncommitted; love is a game

mania

possessive, obsessive, full of fantasy

Maintaining passion and commitment over time is

possible in real life

"madly in love" - both _________ reward and __________ attachment areas of the brain activate more for spouses

short-term, long-term

Should love be sexual or nonsexual?

Sex

agape

altruistic, selfless, dutiful

Compassionate love (I+C)

- Wanting to suffer in your partner's place - Loving them even when they're unwell

After 2 years of marriage, all spouses express affection _____ as often as they did as newlyweds

1/2

Divorces occur more frequently in the _______ year of marriage than at any other time

4th

Incomprehensibility and mixed blessings are most common in

China

biological stage 3: Attachment (oxytocin, PFC)

Commitment

Intimacy + commitment

Companionate

________ ________ is more stable - and more strongly linked with long-term satisfaction

Companionate love

Arguably a third major type of love in long-term marriages

Compassionate love = intimacy + caring

Another name for all 3 components of the triangular theory of love

Consummate

Is love desirable?

Cultural value

________ & _______'s vancouver bridge study

Dutton & Aron

Commitment =

Empty love

T/F: People have always believed that love and marriage go together

False; recently

Romance is enhanced by...

Fantasy, Novelty, Arousal (all 3 fade as familiarity increases)

Passion + commitment

Fatuous love

The triangular theory parallels ____________'s biological stages of love (2006)

Helen Fisher

Passion =

Infatuation

biological stage 2: Attraction (dopamine, reward centers)

Intimacy or liking

biological stage 1: Lust (sex hormones)

Passion or infatuation

Hatfield & Berscheid's two-factor theory of passionate love proposes that...

Passionate love = Arousal + Attribution of Arousal

Intimacy + passion =

Romantic love

Students' beliefs about themselves were more _________ and _________ when they were in love

confident, versatile

(qualification) Triangles are rarely __________

consistent

People with secure attachment styles get closer to __________ love

consummate

storge

friendship, commitment

Most loves are " _______ _______ " with all three components present in different amounts

impure mixtures

Romantic love leads to relationship ________

initiation

Committed men pay more/less attention to attractive opposite sex photos when primed to think of their partners

less

Which love style best associates with men?

ludus

Emotions are ______ positive and ______ intense as people age

more, less

pragma

practical and pragmatic; dispassionate

(qualification) Love types are not ________

pure

Two major types of love that occur frequently in US marriages

romantic love and companionate love

The best attachment style is

secure

Love expands our ____________

self-concepts

Companionate love leads to relationship ________

stability

Which love styles (2) best associate with women?

storge, pragma

fantasies and fairy tales are more common in

the US


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