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1. www.nature.com › articles › s41599/023/02504-1Meanings and implications of love: review of the scholarship ...

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   Jan 18, 2024 · While doing so, we also acknowledge that romantic love is not necessarily a Western construct, but a universal emotion that is historically and contextually contingent (see Karandashev, 2015 and ...

2. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesTowards a Comprehensive Theory of Love: The Quadruple Theory

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   May 19, 2020 · Scholars across an array of disciplines including social psychologists have been trying to explain the meaning of love for over a century but its polysemous nature has made it difficult to fully understand. In this paper, a quadruple framework of attraction, resonance or connection, trust, and respect are proposed to explain the meaning of love ...

   • Author: Tobore Onojighofia Tobore
   • DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00862

   • Publish Year: 2020
   • Publication: Front Psychol. 2020; 11: 862.

3. journals.sagepub.com › doi › 10The Social Construction of Love - Anne E. Beall, Robert J ...

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   Averill, J.R. (1985) `The Social Construction of Emotion: With Special Reference to Love', in K. Gergen & K.E. Davis (eds) The Social Construction of the Person. New York: Springer. Google Scholar. Baxter, L.A. & Widenmann, S. (1993) `Revealing and not Revealing the Status of Romantic Relationships to Social Network', Journal of Social and ...

   • Author: Anne E. Beall, Robert J. Sternberg

   • Publish Year: 1995

4. www.nature.com › articles › s41599/023/02504-1Meanings and implications of love: review of the scholarship ...

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   While love is understood as a universal human phenomenon, definitions and expressions of love vary across time and ... Western construct, but a universal emotion that is historically

5. www.npr.org › exploring-the-metaphysics-of-loveExploring The Metaphysics Of Love : 13.7: Cosmos And ... - NPR

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   To fill in a couple of details, the first part of the hypothesis is that romantic love forms a kind of nexus within a particular way of structuring social life, connecting up some important dots ...

6. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Love Concepts, Their Diverse Contents, and Definitions - Springer

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   Abstract. This chapter “Love Concepts, Their Diverse Contents, and Definitions” analyzes the complex conceptual reality and phenomenology of many things, which we call love and other closely related constructs. Among those are the basic and complex units of subjective internal experience of love, such as sensations, appraisals, emotions ...

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   Is Love a social construct?

   • Some may associate love with several of these constructs and with some others as well. Love is a social construct, and individuals construct their own models of love from various building blocks (e.g., emotions, attitudes), which can be associated with love in accord with cultural and personal conceptions of love.

   Love Concepts, Their Diverse Contents, and Definitions

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   Is Love a construct?

   • Theoretically, it is likely that the only own construct of love is liking, as a positive emotion or attitude toward another thing, person, or situation. All other constituents of love (constructs) might be just the concomitants of love which people tend to include in the extended, elaborated, and embellished concept of love.

   Love Concepts, Their Diverse Contents, and Definitions

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   Is Love Universal?

   • It is important to note that love is universal and applies to people of all cultures, races, ethnicities, religion and sexual orientations. Indeed, romantic love as described by the quadruple theory applies equally to heterosexual relationships and to the relationships of people in the LGTBQ community.

   Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Love: The Quadruple Theory

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   How many 'love constructs' are there?

   • Yet, scholars have advanced the theory of love by identifying at least 40 major distinct but interdependent ‘love constructs’ fitting into the four main dimensions of affection, closeness, compassion, and commitment (Karandashev et al. 2022).

   Meanings and implications of love: review of the scholarship of love

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   Is Love universal or contextual?

   • Love is universal but contextual. Everyone who has been ‘in love’ knows that it matters (Sayer, 2011) and how it feels, often a fluttering, engaging feeling. Although the literature is brimming with illustrations (Sayer, 2011) and conceptual attempts to capture the essence of love, it often escapes clear scholarly definitions.

   Meanings and implications of love: review of the scholarship of love

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   Is Love universal across cultures?

   • Universality of love lexicon across cultures can also provide evidence of cross-cultural universality of love. Problem, however, is that the word love is not universal across languages in historical and modern cross-cultural perspectives. Wierzbicka (1992, 1999) showed the diversity of love concepts across languages.

   Love Concepts, Their Diverse Contents, and Definitions

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8. psycnet.apa.org › record › 1996/92803/001The social construction of love. - APA PsycNet

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   Argues for a social–constructionist view of love, according to which both the definition and the emotional experience of love are contextually bound. Both the social history and the psychological backdrop of love are reviewed, concluding that one can understand love only in terms of cultural conceptions of the beloved, the feelings that accompany love, the thoughts that accompany love, and ...