PSYC 2606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Storge, Platonic Love, Calvin Coolidge
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Love continued: passionate love- intense and possibly unrealistic emotional attraction. What most people think about when they think about love. Reaction is unrealistic: being in love is a socialized processed. Love is a recent concept: types of love (john lee, he took inspiration from: color vision (primary and secondary colors- they blend together to create new colors, ancient greece. Hippocrates "the father of medicine"- they tried to classify the things that we love and the things that we fear: three primary types of love, eros: romantic and passionate love. Love is not about being in love as much as it is about the game itself. "coolidge effect"- named in honor of president calvin coolidge. You get bored if it"s the sa(cid:373)e perso(cid:374). Ludus lo(cid:448)er gets bored if it"s al(cid:449)ays the same partner. Plato referred to it as the most noble type of love because it excludes the physical stuff. Platonic love: three secondary types of love, pragma: logical love.
