PSYC 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Robert Sternberg, Labeling Theory
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Psychologist, robert sternberg describes love as the interaction of three components: intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment. Intimacy encompasses feelings of closeness, a ection, and connectedness. Passion is exempli ed by intense physiologically arousing feelings of attraction. Decision/commitment embodies both the initial cognition that one loves another person and the long-term determination to maintain that love. Sternberg"s three components of love can be combined into the following types of love: Types of love intimacy passion commitment. Liking present absent absent. Infatuated absent present absent. Empty absent absent present. Romantic present present absent. Companionate present absent present (friendship) Fatuous absent present present (impersonal) Consummate present present present (complete) Passionate and compassionate love: the two faces of love. Passionate (or romantic) love is a state of powerful absorption in someone. Includes intense physiological interest and arousal, and caring for another"s needs. Companionate love is the strong a ection that we have for those with whom our lives involved.
