FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mate Choice, Disclose, Storge

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

Document Summary

High scores on intimacy, commitment, passion, value similarity, and needs fulfillment. Profound connection: mystical element, willingness to work together. Intimacy with, caring for, and commitment to another person. Desire to enter, maintain, or expand a close, connected, and ongoing relationship with another person or entity . Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. How can i judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. Presents love as a skill that can be taught and developed. Skeptical about ideas of falling in love or being helpless in love. Fehr (1988: asked participants to list key features of love and then asked a second sample to rate the importance of these features. Uncertainty and butterflies were consider to be peripheral: people also describe love and joy similarly.