Categorizing love? The threshold to the infinite definition of love is many. Although many cynics like me‚ may have thought it impossible‚ sociologists over the past several decades have been attempting to categorize and quantify the notion of love. Sternberg in 1986 sees love in terms of the interaction among three independent aspects: passion‚ intimacy (two components of love that many of us need no help in identifying or do I dare say practicing?) and the “C” word that sends many of us rushing
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Write a 350- to 700-word response summarizing the three dimensions of love and how they interrelate to identify a specific type of love relationship. When it comes to love in needs a few thing and some of them are passion‚ intimacy and commitment. However depending the type of love or relationship varies. Passion is a form of an emotion that is how you feel someone‚ and intimacy is a measurement of how close you are to someone or familiar with them. Finally commitment is the act of being
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"According to the theory‚ love has three components: (a) intimacy‚ which encompasses the feelings of closeness‚ connectedness‚ and bondedness one experiences in loving relationships; (b) passion‚ which encompasses the drives that lead to romance‚ physical attraction‚ and sexual consummation; and (c) decision/commitment‚ which encompasses‚ in the short term‚ the decision that one loves another‚ and in the long term‚ the commitment to maintain that love. The amount of love one experiences depends on
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Robert Sternberg an American psychologist gave us the Triarchic Theory of Love. Wherein he shows us the different components of love‚ namely: intimacy‚ passion and decision/ commitment. This theory shows that love can be understood in terms of the three components‚ and they can be viewed as forming the triangle. Intimacy acts as the top vertex of the triangle‚ passion acts as the left point of the triangle and decision/commitment acts as the right point of the triangle. According to Sternberg‚ intimacy
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Defines 1950’s Stuff Conglomerates a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries Franchises a company that offers similar products or services in many locations‚ also it is the right that is sold to an individual entrepreneur to open a business using the parent company’s name and the system that the parent company developed. Social conformity large franchises that standardise the American public The baby boom WWII soldiers coming home to their families and reproducing
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How does one define love? If one tried to search for the meaning of the word love in a dictionary‚ the basic definition that would be found is: a deep affection for somebody or something. It would never define precisely what love is. Love is much more than just few lexemes. It goes beyond what words can express. Love is a notion that cannot be grasped by the mind and certainly cannot be written in few words. How can hundreds of laughs that we shared with the ones whom we love be expressed
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Canadian Journal of Psychology‚ 1990‚ 44(1)‚ 87-112 Canadian Journal of Psychology Outstanding Contributions Series Levels of Processing: A Retrospective Commentary on a Framework for Memory Research Robert S. Lockhart and Hergus l.M. Craik University of Toronto ABSTRACT The influence on memory research of levels of processing (Craik & I^ockharl‚ 1972) is reviewed‚ and a number of conceptual and empirical criticisms are evaluated. Research since 1972 has enabled the original formulation of depth
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Sternberg’s model of love‚ passion‚ intimacy and commitment. From those three they are set up into different combinations to make seven sub-types of love. Passion can be described as the component that reflects romance‚ attraction and sexual needs in the relationship. Many can get confused on how passion works in a relationship. As we know‚ passion is powerful feeling‚ whether it is from love or hate. Someone can love someone but have no passion‚ as well be full of passion and deeply in love with that person
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everyone loves music.” This famous quote said by Billy Joel does a good job describing the way music can affect people. Different songs can impact people‚ change their moods‚ or bring back memories related to a certain tune. Each person‚ however‚ has their own unique taste in music; one song can be loved by one but hated by another‚ it all depends on our personal taste and what we can relate to. This made me wonder‚ what does the music I listen to say about myself? Do the lyrics define who I am as
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How to define the ’middle class ’? BY LI KUI-WAI Published: Mar 15 2013 8:50 Email | Print | Share Text Size The definition of “middle class” has been debated recently in Hong Kong. One simplistic definition would be to take the median or average income and those who received the middle” level of income are the “middle class”. Such a definition is easy to understand in mathematical terms‚ but is naive and has a number of drawbacks. Firstly‚ how close the income level to the “middle” would
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