PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: I Feel Sick, Storge, Robert Sternberg
11 Apr 2017
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P s y 3 1 2 2 : l e c t u r e 1 7. F r i d a y , m a r c h 1 7 , 2 0 1 7. Intimacy feeling of closeness, connection (sharing deepest thoughts with someone) People do not have a formal definition for love, but list certain features as characteristic of love: caring, happiness, acceptance, and trust. Sexual attraction, desire, and trust are mentioned often as central to romantic love. Passionate love: intense longing, preoccupation with, and idealization of the loved one o o o. Behavioural: want to do something to make other person happy, want to be with them. Cognitive: preoccupied with or thinking about the person, idealization. Emotional: desire for your love to be reciprocated (happiness or despair depending on reciprocation) Companionate love: warmth and affection, based on deep friendship that is comfortable and trusting o. Similar brain centres activated when a person does cocaine o.
