| Mere-exposure effect | The tendency to like a person more if we have been exposed to him or her repeatedly.
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| Homophily | The tendency to have contact with people who are equal in social status.
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| Matching phenomenon | The tendency for men and women to choose as partners people who match them, that is, who are similar in attitudes, intelligence, and attractiveness.
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| Intimacy | A quality of relationships characterized by commitment, feelings of closeness and trust, and self-disclosure.
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| Love story | A story about what love should be like, including characters, a plot, and a theme.
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| Passionate love | A state of intense longing for union with the other person and of intense physiological arousal.
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| Companionate love | A feeling of deep attachment and commitment to a person with whom one has an intimate relationship.
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| Operational definition | Defining some concept or term by how it is measured, for example, defining intelligence as those abilities that are measured by IQ tests.
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| Two-component theory of love | Berscheid and Walster's theory that two conditions must exist simultaneously for passionate love to occur: physiological arousal and attaching a cognitive label ("love") to the feeling.
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| Misattribution of arousal | When one is in a stage of physiological arousal (e.g., from exercising or being in a frightening situation), attributing these feelings to love or attraction to the person present.
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