Love as Caring Support

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the implicit factors in determining whether a love relationship defined as caring support will last. The author emphasizes the research by R.J. Sternberg, which divides love into three subcategories of intimacy, passion and commitment. The paper proposes a research study, which is based on the reported literature review and uses a methodology of interviewing students by means of questionnaires. This research will evaluate if there have been changes noted in the intensity, passion or commitment of the subjects' love toward another persons or of the love shown to them by their partners. If there have been changes, the author seeks to identify and analyze the factors causing these changes.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Study by Berg and McQuinn
Study by Jones, Mirenberg, Pelham and Carvallo
Study by Sternberg
Lasting Love
The Biology of Love
Study by Haselton and Buss
Continuing Love
Participants in Study
Materials
Procedure

From the Paper:

"The authors concluded that people's feelings, judgments and behaviors are influenced very much by unconscious processes (as Banaji & Greenwald found in 1995, Bargh, Chen and Burroughs found in 1996, and Bargh and Furguson found in 2000) in laboratory experiments. Even though these suggestions appear to influence human behavior in lab experiments, this study by Jones and his associates brings forth substantial evidence that people choose not only where they live and what they eat, but who their life-long partner will be, based on implicit social cognition influences."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Berg, J.H. and McQuinn, R.D. (1986). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 50, No. 5.
• Fry, R. (1999). Biology of love. The Health Report. 6 Sep 1999. The effect of love on the chemical state of our brains. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s49793.htm.
• Emanuele, E. Polliti, P, Bianchi, M. Minoretti, P. Bertona, M., & Geroldi, D. (2005). Raised plasma nerve growth factor levels associated with early-stage romantic love. Abstract. Psychoneuroendocrinology, Nov. 09.
• Geher, G. (2005). Motivational underpinnings of romantic partner perceptions: Psychological and physiological evidence. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 22, No. 2, 255-281.
• Haselton, M.G. and Buss, D.M. (2000). Error management theory: a new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind-reading. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2000, Vol. 78, No. 1, 81-91. Retrieved May 29, 2007 from http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/research.html and http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/webdocs/ErrorManagementTheory.pdf.

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