Concept information
Preferred term
love (emotion)
Definition
- Definition Love is often thought of as an intense and positive emotion that can be experienced for a variety of close others, including a romantic partner or spouse, close friends, children, parents, and other relatives. For more than three decades, social psychologists and other social scientists have been studying love. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Love]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- companionate love
- compassionate love
- courtly love
- decision and commitment in love
- falling in love
- love in social theory
- obsessive love
- passionate love
- philosophy of love
- prototype approach to love
- romantic love
- sex and love
- triangular theory of love
- typologies of love
- unreciprocated love
- unrequited love
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/love_(emotion)
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