COMM 3523 Lecture 12: CR Notes Week 5 Friday
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Age: as people get older, passion fades and more focus on intimacy and commitment. Sex: no big sex differences in love experiences, men tend to be more of an eros and ludus lover, women tend to be more of a pragma lover. Based on the work by davis and todd: distinguished between platonic and romantic relationships pursued. These affecting relationship pursuit: viability, satisfaction, ambivalence. Those affecting quality of relationship pursued: intimacy, passion, care. No for romantic love: studies find a steady decrease in romantic love among those who married for love, romantic love actually increased slightly among those in arranged marriages. Why romantic love doesn"t last: romance is often based on fantasy, not reality, novelty of romance wears off, arousal for romantic feelings wears off. One way is to categorize people into specific styles: secure. Negative view of yourself, positive view of others: dismissive, fearful/avoidant.
