PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Casual Sex, Open Relationship, Libido
16 May 2012
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Chapter 12: close relationships: passion, intimacy and sexuality. Passionate love: having strong feelings of longing, desire, and excitement towards a certain person. Companionate love: less strongly emotional, tends to be calmer and more serene. It involves thinking of the other person as your soul mate or special partner. It is what makes people want to remain each other"s companions. There may be a physiological, even biochemical difference between the two kinds of love: people who feel passionately about each other high high levels of phenylethylamine (pea), a nt. It also produces high intensity or frequency of sexual desire: companionate love is not characterized by high levels of pea. The question of whether love is universal or a product of western culture has been debated: some cultures place more of a value on it than others do. A successful relationship depends on making the transition from passionate to companionate love.
