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Chapter 5 - Love Conceptualized as Mutual Communal Responsiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2018

By
Margaret S. Clark ,
Jennifer L. Hirsch  and
Joan K. Monin
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Karin Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Karin Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

The term love is used in many ways. It has been used to refer to sexual feelings for another person, motivation to be with a person, and selfless devotion to another (just to name a few). Many times it refers to a combination of these things. Very often the term is used without definition. No one usage is the right one. Each has value. Yet in conducting research and in writing about love for academic purposes, it is important to make one’s own conceptual definition clear.

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The New Psychology of Love , pp. 84 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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