PSYC 334 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Coolidge Effect, Unrequited Love, Suspension Bridge

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Dylan Selterman

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Marital status: love used to be thought of as madness, concept of happy ending didn"t start until 18th century. 7: hatfield and sprecher create passionate love scale assesses fascination and. Emotions react to stimuli and are brief preoccupation with/ high desire for object of one"s love: thought and friend, rubin"s love scale and liking scale asked people to describe lover. Themes on scale are intimacy, dependence, and caring. Individual and cultural differences in love: romantic love is universal human experience, thinking of love as a fantasy is more common in us, marriage in china is family decision, in us it is a personal decision. In arranged marriages parents priorities are different than yours d: secure people more intimate, passionate, committed, and caring, older people mellow, less physical by overall happy, men have more romantic attitudes than women. Does love last: romantic love decreases when people marry, fantasy: increases romance but erodes, novelty: first kiss ore exciting.