Positive and Negative Emotions
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Attachment Style and Relationships
Emily Gold
PSY/220
Alan Coffin
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Part I:
The three dimensions of love are intimacy, passion, and commitment. Passion is when
a person or individuals feel strong emotions, excitement, and physiological arousal.
Commitment is a conscious decision to stay in a relationship. This includes a sense of devotion
to the individual who they are with or the relationship. Intimacy is a mutual understanding with
warm affection, and mutual concern for each others welfare. Sternberg theory is there are certain
types of love when one or more of these dimensions of love are interrelated. There are five
interrelated loves, and they are romantic, compassionate, fatuous and infatuated, empty, and
consummate love. Compassionate love is a mixture of intimacy and commitment. This is a slow
developing love built on high intimacy and strong commitment. Fatuous loves is a combination
of passion and commitment often describing people in a whirlwind passionate romance, but
barely know each other and it is unlikely to last. Romantic love is a mixture of intimacy and
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passion. This love may not always include commitment, for example spring break or summer
love. Infatuated love is mostly the same as fatuous, but may be described as people in awe,
adoration, and sex related feelings. Empty love is relationships built on commitment only.
People often describe this as a “dead” relationship and both parties often find a reason to stay
together. For example some will stay together just for the financial reason and not love.
Consummate is the complete form of love, representing the ideal relationship toward which
many people strive but which apparently few achieve. Sternberg cautions that maintaining a
consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. "Without expression," he warns,
"even the greatest of loves
Attachment Style and Relationships
Emily Gold
PSY/220
Alan Coffin
Page 2
Part I:
The three dimensions of love are intimacy, passion, and commitment. Passion is when
a person or individuals feel strong emotions, excitement, and physiological arousal.
Commitment is a conscious decision to stay in a relationship. This includes a sense of devotion
to the individual who they are with or the relationship. Intimacy is a mutual understanding with
warm affection, and mutual concern for each others welfare. Sternberg theory is there are certain
types of love when one or more of these dimensions of love are interrelated. There are five
interrelated loves, and they are romantic, compassionate, fatuous and infatuated, empty, and
consummate love. Compassionate love is a mixture of intimacy and commitment. This is a slow
developing love built on high intimacy and strong commitment. Fatuous loves is a combination
of passion and commitment often describing people in a whirlwind passionate romance, but
barely know each other and it is unlikely to last. Romantic love is a mixture of intimacy and
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passion. This love may not always include commitment, for example spring break or summer
love. Infatuated love is mostly the same as fatuous, but may be described as people in awe,
adoration, and sex related feelings. Empty love is relationships built on commitment only.
People often describe this as a “dead” relationship and both parties often find a reason to stay
together. For example some will stay together just for the financial reason and not love.
Consummate is the complete form of love, representing the ideal relationship toward which
many people strive but which apparently few achieve. Sternberg cautions that maintaining a
consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. "Without expression," he warns,
"even the greatest of loves