Psychology 3724F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pair Bond, Married People, John Bowlby
29 Dec 2017
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Love as a commitment device: pair bonding in humans: evolutionary explanation the origin of (romantic) love is that is evolved as a commitment device to keep. Universality of love: romantic love existing in 147 of 166 cultures, those where it doesn"t exist were informative about love rather than definitive, only one culture romantic love did not exist. Problems that love is an evolved adaptation in humans: Individualistic cultures u. s. , canada: common in hunter-gatherer cultures parental mate choice is better (give more weight in resources, character, status) Monogamy and polygyny (one man with many women: majority of marital relationships across western, tradition, and hunter-gather cultures are monogamous, 85% of cultures allow pologyny. The nature of love you : list would include items that speak to quality of intimacy, closeness, trust, respect, warmth, and acceptance, passionate side of love passion, chemistry, attraction and sex, this shows that love can be defined.
