Some reflections on the two psychologies of love
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19280741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David C Mcclelland (0000-0003-2244-5935, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 334-353 |
| Publication date | 1986-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1986.tb00398.x |
| OpenAlex | W2008407067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 18 |
The mainstream view of love is that it is a state that arises from people mutually reinforcing each other or providing benefits to each other Yet careful quantitative analyses of imaginative thought patterns of people in love or in a state of affiliative arousal reveal themes of dialogue, commitment, and harmony rather than of mutual benefits It is suggested that asking people about love leads them to give causal explanations for the state which psychologists have elaborated into the theory that love is a response to having one's needs met Imaginative experiences characteristic of the state of being in love on the other hand may be different because they are primarily right brain mediated and do not share in the causal, instrumental type of reasoning characteristic of left brain conscious thinking Such conceivably right brain mediated experiences in TATs are more closely associated than presumably left brain mediated self‐reports are with such physiological measures as evoked scalp potentials, neurohormone concentrations, and immune functions A vew of love that takes both self‐report (left brain) and fantasy (right brain) measures into account does a better job of predicting affiliative behavior than does a view that relies solely on one or the other of the two types of measures
Arousal · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Fantasy · Mainstream · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Interpersonal relatedness and self-definition
Altruism, happiness, and health
On Falling in Love and Creativity
The Motivating Power of Visionary Images
The romantic experience of adolescents in satisfying love relationships
Sex without emotional involvement
Contributions of Psychoanalysis To the Understanding and Treatment of Depression
Narcissism and immature love as mediators of vertical individualism and ludic love style
Personality.
Motivational determinants of risk-taking behavior.
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
Telling more than we can know
A thematic coding system for the intimacy motive
Interpersonal attraction in exchange and communal relationships
Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety
Effects of salience of extrinsic rewards on liking and loving
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2017 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |