In this chapter, we ask some awkward questions about the relationship between romantic
love and sexual behavior. First, is there such a thing as romantic love which people can�…

Throughout history, artists, poets, and writers have been interested in the nature of
passionate love, sexual desire, and sexual behavior. In the 1960s, social psychologists and�…

Love and sexuality are phenomena of central importance to certain types of intimate
relationships. Although love has been a mainstream relationship variable in research�…

Chapman's Love Languages hypothesis claims that (1) people vary in the ways they prefer
to receive and express affection and (2) romantic partners who communicate their feelings�…

Everyday life presents many experiences that can make people feel connected to another
and leave them feeling loved. We conducted two ecological momentary assessment studies�…

Recent research has characterized romantic love as overlapping with but distinct from
sexual desire. We explore whether romantic orientation—the preferred gender (s) of�…

Romantic love and jealousy seem antagonistic, but the expression of both emotions have
evolutionary functions that can go in the same direction of maintaining a relationship�…

The purpose of this research was to thoroughly study the psychometric properties of the
Love Bank Inventory (LBI) with married participants. The LBI is a 21-item Likert-type English�…

Many topics within the study of close relationships are relevant to positive psychology, such
as love, friendship, social support, and forgiveness. However, very little has been done to�…

Abstract Love is a universal emotion that has become the basis of marriage and family for
many societies, which researchers continue to explore. This research will add to the�…