FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unrequited Love

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Sandra Pericak

Document Summary

Features of love: fehr (1988, feature themes, positive affect, negative affect, behaviours, physiological, cognitive activities, social support and altruism, central features, peripheral features relationship endurance lack of inhibition. A brief history of love & marriage: kephart, 1967, by the 1990"s, 91% of women and 87% of men say they would not marry someone without feeling romantic love (allgeier & wiederman, 1991) Can we define love: romantic/passionate love, state of intense longing for union with another, companionate love. Wheel theory of love (reiss, 1960: rapport, self-revelation, mutual dependency, intimacy & need fulfillment. Intimacy: warmth and bonding, passion, romance, attraction, sexuality, commitment, short term: one"s decision to love, long term: commitment to love over time. Biochemical theory: the chemistry of love: biological, chemical, and hormonal origins, love as an addiction, passionate love companionate love. Is love blind: people underestimate lover"s faults. Soulmates: a person who is temperamentally suited to another.