PSYC 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Shyness

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

Document Summary

Love = strong positive attitude that involves emotion. Three different building blocks are presumed to combine to form different types of love: Intimacy: feelings of warmth, understanding, communication, support, and sharing. Commitment: the decision to stay in a relationship and to work to maintain it. Indeed, a two-factor theory of romantic love proposes that such love results from: The belief that another person is the cause of your arousal. When men expected to date a woman, they thought her lousy work was better than it really was. After they have been married for many years, happy couples tend to say: Long-lasting, satisfying marriages evidently include a lot of companionate love. There appear to be two major types of love that occur frequently in american marriages: A love that"s full of passion that leads a couple to marry. A love that"s full of friendship that underlies marriages that last. Be a good listener: encourage others to talk about themselves.