Romantic love and sexual desire in close relationships

被引:163
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作者
Gonzaga, Gian C.
Turner, Rebecca A.
Keltner, Dacher
Campos, Belinda
Altemus, Margaret
机构
[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Psychiat, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Psychol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] Cornell Univ, Weill Med Coll, New York, NY USA
关键词
romantic love; sexual desire; emotion; facial expression; relationship functioning;
D O I
10.1037/1528-3542.6.2.163
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Drawing oil recent claims in the Study of relationships. attachment. and emotion. the authors hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment-related function and Sexual desire a reproduction-related function. Consistent with these claims, in Study 1. brief experiences of romantic love and sexual desire observed in a 3-min interaction between romantic partners were related to distinct feeling states. distinct nonverbal displays. and commitment- and reproductive-related relationship outcomes. respectively. In Study 2, the nonverbal display of romantic love was related to the release of oxytocin. Discussion focuses oil the place of romantic love and sexual desire in the literature on emotion.
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页码:163 / 179
页数:17
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