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9780521473200

Cupid's Arrow: The Course of Love through Time

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521473200

  • ISBN10:

    0521473209

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-09-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

In this absorbing book, renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg presents a psychological approach to human relationships that reveals how and why people fall in and out of love. Fascinating reading for anyone who wants to learn more about love, Cupid's Arrow draws on fields ranging from history to cognitive science to folklore, offering a comprehensive account of love in its many forms. Grounded in Sternberg's own 'triangular theory', the book explores the many varieties of love as diffe

Table of Contents

Preface page vii
Part I. The Composition of Cupid's Arrow: What Is Love? 3(50)
1 A Three-Component View of Love
3(13)
2 Seven Kinds of Love
16(8)
3 Many Different Triangles of Love
24(20)
4 Measuring the Triangle of Love
44(9)
Part II. Aiming Cupid's Arrow: Love over Many Lifetimes 53(48)
5 The Prehistory of Love
53(6)
6 The History of Love Revealed through Culture (in collaboration with Anne E. Beall)
59(16)
7 The History of Love Revealed through Literature (in collaboration with Susan Hayden)
75(26)
Part III. Firing Cupid's Arrow: Love in Our Lifetime: Beginnings 101(30)
8 The Role of Childhood and Adolescence
101(6)
9 The Role of Adulthood
107(24)
Part IV. Cupid's Arrow in Flight: Love in Our Lifetime: Middles 131(28)
10 The Role of Reward
131(10)
11 The Course of Relationships
141(18)
Part V. When Cupid's Arrow Falls: Love in Our Lifetime: Endings 159(24)
12 Decay of Relationships
159(9)
13 Dissolution of and New Beginnings for Relationships
168(15)
Notes 183(20)
Index 203

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