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Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families Cover Image
Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families, 5/e
Mary K. DeGenova
Philip F. Rice

Attraction and Love

Links

Psychology of Love: Introduction
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa020500a.htm)

Love Conceptions: Historical Background
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa021000a.htm)

Psychological Theories about the Dynamics of Love (I)
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa022000a.htm)

Psychological Theories about the Dynamics of Love (II)
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa022100a.htm)

Psychological Theories about Types of Love
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa021500a.htm)

Love vs. Folk Views of Love
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa022200a.htm)

Romantic Love and Attachment
(http://psychology.about.com/science/psychology/library/weekly/aa022001a.htm)

This series of web pages addresses various topics in the psychology of love and attachment.
Love and Evolution
(http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/love.htm)

"Empathy and love develop and are expressed above all in the family, in love between parents, in love of parents for children, in the solidarity of the family, which can be seen as the nucleus round which wider group feeling develops...." This web site considers "the evolutionary role of love; the evolutionary potential of love; the significance of love for survival of the individual and of the group...."
Sex and the Search for Intimacy
(http://www.everystudent.com/features/search.html)

"What does it take to experience real intimacy with someone? The elements of genuine love and intimacy cannot be obtained "instantly," and you find yourself in an unbalanced state, searching for harmony."
Sinclair Intimacy Institute
(http://www.intimacyinstitute.com/index5.html)

The Sinclair Intimacy Institute is a "resource developed to help couples improve their sexual relationships and lovemaking skills. Experts agree an essential element of a strong, intimate relationship is a healthy and satisfying sex life." Explore this web site for a listing of videotapes and more about information about sex and intimacy.
Social Science Looks at Online Intimacy
(http://www.well.com/user/hlr/tomorrow/hyperpersonal.html)

"Cyberspace is often depicted as a depersonalized zone where the socially inept retreat into an alienated world of e-mail and computer bulletin board systems. People who have formed intimate relationships and marriages online and groups of people who have built "virtual communities" know that this stereotype misses the mark." This brief article addresses these issues.
Pure Intimacy
(http://www.pureintimacy.org/)

"An Internet saturated with pornography is making it alarmingly easy to bring sexual temptation right into our homes." If this is a problem for you or someone close to you, visit this site.
Jealousy Test
(http://www.queendom.com/tests/jealousy-menu.html)

Jealousy is one side of love and intimacy. Visit this site to assess your feelings of jealousy. Take a look at this test of jealousy. Try comparing the variations. What makes them different? What makes them the same?
Loving More
(http://www.lovemore.com/)

This quarterly magazine is designed to support, explore, and enhance responsibility in relationships. It promotes a diversity of legitimate options for intimacy, sexuality, and family life including monogamy and responsible polyamory (including all forms of ethical and consensual multipartner relations between adults).