Concept information
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industrial psychology
understanding and assessing individual differences
personality assessment
emotion
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social psychology
interpersonal relationships
human relationships
emotion processes in relationships
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micro-interactionist theory
social interaction
human relationships
emotion processes in relationships
Preferred term
companionate love
Definition
- Most people eagerly seek out love and believe that forming a successful love relationship is essential for their personal happiness. Although each individual is likely to experience various types of love and enter into a number of different kinds of love relationship over the course of his or her lifetime, scientists have tended to focus on two varieties of love that commonly occur in long-term romantic relationships. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Love, Companionate and Passionate]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/companionate_love
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