This is a much-needed development from the first edition that provides an update on the
theory and research on love by world-renowned scientific experts. It explores love from a�…

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�…

This book presents the attempts of contemporary psychologists whose field of expertise is
the study of love and close relationships to discover just what love is. Comprises five parts�…

“Love is blind,” according to a common saying.“Love is a recent invention, a mere few
hundred years old,” some social scientists have argued.“Love is limited to Western cultures,”�…

This chapter examines love's role in relationship satisfaction. We overview general theories
of love, including the evolutionary perspective. We then present the love styles approach�…

In his preface to The Psychology of Love, Zick Rubin observed that the science of love was
still in its infancy.“One sign of this immaturity,” he wrote,“is the fact that the investigators�…

The scientific efforts to understand love and sex stem from the late nineteenth century and
continued in twentieth century. Despite those early attempts, scholars often resisted�…

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the
perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial�…

Previous work (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1989) assessed several current theories of love,
finding that the various measures could be reduced to five independent love dimensions�…

While not neglecting literary treatments of love, Anthony Walsh focuses on current scientific
research from many diverse fields, including biology, genetics, brain physiology�…