Essay on Psychology of Love

Love is a basic need in every living thing. The ability to be social and interact with the living things around you is very important. Some would say that the root of some mental illness’ is from the lack of love, or too much love. In the book by Gary Chapman, “The 5 Love Languages” he talks about the importance of love and how we all communicate love in different ways, as well as how much of an impact these different languages have on every day life.

Humanity’s potential to develop interpersonal relationships is fundamental to their growth and can be detrimental to society if not maintained. Focusing on a relationship between two spouses; it is traditionally presumed to be mutually beneficial. It is this mutual benefit where a healthy relationship can contribute to an individual’s attainment of goals, moral construction, and perception of society.

According to the traditional and overused, cliché definitions, love is only viewed in certain contexts, between certain people, and with certain characteristics (exclusive, lasting and unconditional). What this traditional fairy-tale definition of love ignores is the body’s definition of love, which plays an important role in our perception and acceptance of love. According to Fredrickson, love has biological basis and body dictates us various things about love. For example, love is not long-lasting, however, it’s renewable. When talking to a romantic, you won’t be told that love can discontinue and that it can be renewed, however our bodies indicate the true nature of love. Through chemistry and various pathways, bodies offer us alternative and possibly more true definition of love. This new definition encourages readers to rethink the way we view love and the characteristics that we ascribe to it, thus promoting healthier forms of love.

This essay will outline and compare both biological and behavioural perspectives on human behaviour. The history, major discoveries and theories will be discussed along with some of the most influential theorists in each of these two areas of psychology. This essay will also compare the two areas strengths and weaknesses in the field of psychology.

The measure that we developed for our study goes together with our construct. In our scale, we are assessing if the variables coincide with the items on the scale. The items we came up with each reflect a particular attachment style. The IV is attachment style and the DV is the effects of the styles. These variables are included in the scale to accurately measure what we are looking for, which are the effects. Each question reflects how either negative attachments or positive attachments affects the way people get engage in romantic relationships. Questions such as “It helps to turn to my romantic pattern in times of need, ” “I turn to my partner for many things, including comfort and reassurance,” “I do not often worry about being abandoned,” and “I usually discuss my problems and concerns with my partner,” would help us explain why negative attachments will lead

Throughout the years, there have been many individual’s who have faced many different conflicts in their intimate relationship, which has caused them distress. There is many different ways couples reach this point in their relationship: lack of sex, lack of money, lack of communication, lack of feelings, and children. However, going to a relationship counselor helps provide a lot of valuable skills to succeed in getting relationships stitched back together. Also as we look throughout this chapter, “we see that there are many theoretical models that has helped the service of treating distressed relationships: Psychodynamic models, Systems models, behavioral models, and emotional models” (Bradbury & Karney, 2014, p. 420). Many of these models guide the therapist throughout their work, which helps them provide helpful techniques to the couples. So, therefore, even though many would not think relationships slip away, they do.

The key tension for our relationship is the aspect of stability-change: predictability versus novelty. Most relationships when they start tend to gloss over less-desirable personality traits or behaviors. Overtime however, people may have more difficulty accepting each other as they are; one partner may try to change the

Many psychologist tried to analyse the process of romantic love. One of them was Fisher, an anthrpologist who used brain scans which showed that love is a chemical reaction of norepinephrine and dopamine and other brain chemicals in different regions of the brain that are responsible for excitement and bliss in humans as well as in some other animal species. Fisher suggested that love is a natural drive and as powerful as hunger (Fisher, 2004). Psychologist Bessell proposed that people in love are drawn together by a force that he called ‘romantic attraction’. This romantic attraction however is a combination of genetic and cultural factors and this force may be weak, strong or felt to different degrees by each of two partners. Bessell found another factor that is important for providing a good relationship that is ‘emotional maturity’ a one’s capability to provide a stable love relationship (Bessell, 1984). Love is a universally pattern of human mate preferences, that should be and was free-choice at least to some extent throughout human evolutionary history as Buss & Schmitt (1993)

I 've always loved science. I have for almost 3 years. It 's my favorite subject, and i 'll even research science outside of school. I own a telescope and i could go out whenever i want and set it up. But for awhile before 5th grade, i didn 't love science. Science was actually uninteresting to me, but in april of 2015, this changed.

Love, whilst recognised as a universal experience has been found to be extremely difficult to define. This essay compares and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of two of the most prominent love theories. The first is Freud’s theory of love as aim-inhibited libido. Aim-inhibited libido can be defined as libido where the sexual instincts have been diverted or disguised due to the means for their fulfilment being forbidden. Roger’s theory of unconditional positive regard is founded on the idea that a healthy love relationship must consist of two self-actualising people. It was found that Freud’s theory was too scientific, while Rogers’ not enough.

The emotional roller coaster that young couples have experienced in a relationship is affecting them differently. Men are thought to be an aggressor and usually are dominant in a relationship, whereas women are passionate and more emotional when it comes to relationship. Although, this can be label as stereotype where typically it is quite an opposite. Men are capable of being vulnerable during an ongoing relationship. More men are experiencing an emotional distress from a bad relationship than women do. The psychological mindset and the state of well-being surely have influences their judgment on how they should behave when it comes to a relationship. To an extent, romantic relationship provides a valued of social identity and

Does brain equal behavior? Some people have argued that they have difficulty saying it does because they find it hard to believe that our individual, tangible brain controls emotions that many consider to be intangible, such as being in love. This paper will discuss the role that the brain actually plays in love- why we are attracted to certain people, why we feel the way we do when we are around them, and whether or not this is enough to say that in the case of love, brain does equal behavior.

Love according to the book is said to be about the number 4 thing people said they need to be in a healthy relationship(Welch 2010). Even though the undefinable emotion is commonly used throughout American culture as a simple verb it has more meaning. We love food, dogs, learning but what is love according to relationships and what does love look like. One researcher , John Alan Lee developed six different love styles that people tend to fall into. In this paper I will discuss the six different love styles in relation to my “Love Style” Inventory, and “Are You a Good Listener” survey.

Many individuals are in intense need of companionship and connection with others. Actually, almost no one can live healthily in a society without building relationships with others. Romantic relationship is one of these important connections, providing love, support, care and a sense of importance. Although it is of such significance, many people find themselves finally become dissatisfied in relationships and cannot sustain their relationships any longer. In a research done by Hatfield (1993) to assess the level of passionate love, it is found that most of the passionate love declined steadily over time. So, what are the factors make relationships starting with high satisfactory begin to collapse? Or, as most people concern, what are the factors that make a relationship satisfying and long lasting? Everyone can list some of them based on their own experience, such as Arthur Aron and Elaine Aron (1986) states that interpersonal attraction and the maintenance of close relationships can be understood from a perspective of self-expansion. This view thinks that changes in relationship satisfaction over time are related to changes in experience of self-expansion in the relationship context. The essence of intimacy is including partner into the self concept. When self-expansion achieves, more closeness and satisfactory occur between couples. And increasing similarity, better communication and more excitement can be part of the

Love is a powerful feeling; it makes you do crazy thing. Many people spend years trying to find it, others give up thinking they’ll never find it. Love has been defined as an intensive feeling of a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Of course, Love doesn 't have to romantic and/or sexual. People who are ace, as in asexual, aromantic and agender, can still be in relationships that are satisfying for them without the needs of a romantic relationship. Familial love is also non-romantic-sexual. However, in this paper, we will be talking about romantic-sexual love, what it is, and why I believe it’s so important to understand and experience.