Chapter Objectives

After reading the chapter, you should be able to:

discuss and evaluate the factors that contribute to attraction.

understand the meaning, characteristics, and effects of romantic love and evaluate it as a sound basis for marriage.

discuss the meaning of erotic love and its relationship to sex.

describe dependent love and Maslow's theory of love as need.

understand the importance of friendship love in intimate relationships and its relationship to liking.

describe altruistic love and Fromm's four components of it.

understand the need for complete love as a sound basis for marriage.

summarize Sternberg's view of the components of love.

describe how love attitudes of men and women are both similar and change over time.

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