The present study identifies the higher-order factors underlying the most popular measures
of love in use today through meta-analytic factor analysis. Eighty-one studies representing�…

The concept of passionate love has a long history, yet it was not until the 1940s that social
scientists created tools designed to measure this emotion. Over the next 60 years, numerous�…

Love is a perennial topic of fascination for scholars and laypersons alike. Whereas
psychological science was slow to develop active interest in love, the past few decades�…

The present study is a reliability‐generalization meta‐analysis of 5 commonly used
measures of romantic love: Rubin's Loving and Liking scales, the Love Attitudes Scale, the�…

Two statistical meta-analyses synthesized 33 empirical studies which investigated the
correlation between relationship satisfaction and two types of love: Erotic Love and�…

The purpose of this chapter is to document social science research on love, with an
emphasis on social psychological contributions. The chapter begins with the fundamental�…

Pilot work and three studies detail the development of thePerceptions of Love and Sex
Scale,'a measure of how people view the link between love and sex in their romantic�…

Romantic love is ubiquitous and has major influences on people's lives. Because romantic
love consists of infatuation and attachment, researchers need to be able to differentiate�…

Whereas previous research into romantic love has focused upon the traits of love objects,
beliefs about love and/or types of loving relationships, these two studies examine the�…

This study reports the creation of the Love Ways Inventory and an investigation of the
relationship between the subjective experience of romantic love and relationship quality�…