PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Color Wheel Theory Of Love, Autonomic Nervous System, Borderline Personality Disorder
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People are looking for different things from love, love styles. Some research has supported this, but not especially strongly. Life is a process of expanding yourself, taking on new experiences, integrating them. Pairing off, falling in love, is a process of self-expansion. You find someone who you can expand with, taking on some of their traits, activities. Research has found that people who report they have fallen in love, became larger and had expanded their traits. Self-other overlap is strongest for person you have fallen in love with. Related to commitment, accommodation, sacrifices, happiness, stability, conflict-resolution. This model is best in predicting love. Arousal(autonomic nervous system)-linked in terms of the evolutionary adaptiveness of fight or flight behavior. Arousal is linked to increases in aggressive response by research. Pain, heat, noise-research on these three aspects has shown that they have been linked to aggression. When its warmer, there are higher crime rates.
