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According to Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love, love is composed of three elements: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy involves bonding and emotional support between partners. Passion refers to romance, attraction, and sexual fulfillment. Commitment has short-term aspects like the decision to love someone, and long-term aspects like maintaining that love. Sternberg proposes that love can be classified into eight types depending on which elements are present, such as liking (intimacy only), romantic love (intimacy and passion), and consummate love (all three elements).

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According to Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love, love is composed of three elements: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy involves bonding and emotional support between partners. Passion refers to romance, attraction, and sexual fulfillment. Commitment has short-term aspects like the decision to love someone, and long-term aspects like maintaining that love. Sternberg proposes that love can be classified into eight types depending on which elements are present, such as liking (intimacy only), romantic love (intimacy and passion), and consummate love (all three elements).

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Notes for Psychology Presentation: Dating & Marriage

Sternbergs Triangular Love Scale (Triangular Theory of Love)


According to Robert Sternbergs theory, love is composed of 3 elements: passion, intimacy and
commitment.
Intimacy is the bonding feel when you love someone. Its when you give and receive emotional
support from each other, communicate about intimate things, and value the other person being
in your life.
Passion refers to the elements of romance and attraction in a relationship. Its fueled by the
desire to increase self-esteem, to be sexually active or fulfilled, to affiliate with others, to
dominate, or to subordinate.
Commitment is broken into 2 parts: short term and long term

Short-term refers to the decision that you love someone. This usually occurs before you
decide to make a commitment to that person.
The commitment represents the long-term aspect. Its the maintenance of love.

According to Sternberg these 3 components can be combined in 8 different ways, creating


different types of ways to classify love.
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Liking (intimacy only)

Basis for close friendships


Enduring kind of love
Boyfriends and Girlfriends come and go but good friends remain

Romantic Love (intimacy & passion)

It is similar to liking but more intense


There is physical or emotional attraction
It can be friendship that intensifies with passion or passion that develops intimacy

Infatuation (passion only)

Love at First Sight


Idealizes its object
Sudden passion. High degree of physical and emotional arousal

Obsessive and consuming

Fatuous Love (passion & commitment)

Whirl-wind love
Begins the day a couple meets and quickly results in cohabitation or engagement and
marriage

Empty Love (decision or commitment only)

No passion or intimacy

Companionate Love (intimacy & commitment)

Essential to a committed relationship


Usually begins as romantic love but as the passion diminishes, the intimacy increases
Some people arent satisfied with this kind of love and may have affairs or divorce to
seek a new romantic relationship

Consummate Love (intimacy, passion, and commitment)

Best kind because it has all 3


The kind of love we dream about but dont expect
Many of us can achieve it but its difficult to sustain over time

Non love (absence of intimacy, passion, and commitment)

Can take many forms such as attachment for financial reasons, fear, or fulfillment of
needs

*The shape of the triangle depends on the intensity of the love and the balance of the parts.

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