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12 kwi 2013 · The chapter begins with the fundamental question: What is love? Laypeople's and social scientists' answers to this question are presented, including Berscheid's (2010) recent model that delineates four basic kinds of love: romantic/passionate love, companionate love, compassionate love, and attachment love.
The research was divided into five thematic blocks: (1) The social definition of love and its role in maintaining an intimate relationship, (2) Love as a time-changing process, (3) Love pillars, (4) Crises and challenges in love relationships, and (5) The search for love.
12 kwi 2017 · In the first section of this article, I will make an attempt at defining some key concepts of Critical Love Studies in relation to narrative research in a wide sense of the term, spanning from literary scholarship via linguistics to social sciences.
Thus, we will deal with the close relationship between emotions and language. Especially, we will deal with an emotion that has been, in the history of mankind in the Western culture, really important (Oatley 2004). We refer to “love”, understood in the broadest sense. Love has helped to define the essence of human beings.
The chapter begins with the fundamental question: What is love? Laypeople's and social scientists' answers to this question are presented, including Berscheid's (2010) recent model that delineates four basic kinds of love: romantic/passionate love, companionate love, compassionate love, and attachment love.
29 mar 2023 · Once social love is conceptualised and its dimensions identified, how can it be investigated? Which methodological approaches and research tools can be used to identify its various forms in the real world?
The purpose of this chapter is to document what is currently known about love, based on social science research, with an emphasis on social psychological contributions. In the first half of the chapter, I focus on the fundamental question “What is love?”
