The New Psychology of Love

Provides a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts.

Robert J. Sternberg (Edited by), Karin Sternberg (Edited by)

9781108468770, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 December 2018

350 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 table
22.7 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg

'This volume offers a great mixture of chapters that are updated (with the same authors) from the prior Sternberg volume on love with new chapters that include new themes and authors. The study of love and relationships has recently flourished, and therefore this volume is timely and a must-read for any student or scholar of relationships.' Susan Sprecher, Distinguished Professor, Illinois State University, and President, International Association for Relationship Research

This is a much-needed development from the first edition that provides an update on the theory and research on love by world-renowned scientific experts. It explores love from a diverse range of standpoints: social-psychological, evolutionary, neuropsychological, clinical, cultural, and even political. It considers questions such as: how men and women differ in their love, what makes us susceptible to jealousy and envy in relationships, how love differs across various cultures? As the neuropsychological basis of love is examined, this study showcases what attracts people to one another, why love has developed the way it has over time, and what evolutionary purpose it serves. It also analyses why and when love relationships both succeed and fail, which means readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of their own relationships and those of others, as well as what can be done to build a lasting, loving relationship.

1. Love as expansion of the self Arthur Aron and Jennifer M. Tomlinson
2. Entraining, becoming, and loving Krystyna S. Aune and R. Kelly Aune
3. The evolution of love in humans David M. Buss
4. Neuroimaging of love in the twenty-first century Stephanie Cacioppo
5. Love conceptualized as mutual communal responsiveness Margaret S. Clark, Jennifer L. Hirsch and Joan K. Monin
6. Love is political: how power and bias influence our intimate lives Terri D. Conley, Staci Gusakova and Jennifer L. Piemonte
7. Love, desire, and sexual fluidity Lisa M. Diamond
8. Everyday conceptions of love Beverley Fehr
9. Passionate love Cyrille Feybesse and Elanie Hatfield
10. Slow love: courtship in the digital age Helen E. Fisher and Justin R. Garcia
11. Styles of love Clyde Hendrick and Susan S. Hendrick
12. An anthropologist goes looking for love in all the old places: a personal account William Jankowiak
13. A behavioral systems approach to romantic love relationships: attachment, caregiving, and sex Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver
14. When love goes awry (part 1): applications of the duplex theory of love and its development to relationships gone bad Robert J. Sternberg
15. When love goes awry (part 2): application of an augmented duplex theory of love to personal and situational factors in jealousy and envy Robert J. Sternberg, Navjot Kaur and Elisabeth J. Mistur.

Subject Areas: Dating, relationships, living together & marriage [VFVG], Psychology: emotions [JMQ], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychology of gender [JMG], Humanistic psychology [JMAN], Sociology: family & relationships [JHBK], Sociology & anthropology [JH]