PSY 220 Attachment Style and Relationships
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Attachment Styles
PSY 220 Attachment Style and Relationships
PSY/220
Attachment Style and Relationships
Part 1
Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love is based on three dimensions: passion, intimacy, and commitment. In Sternberg's model passion, intimacy, and commitment each represent one side of a triangle describing the love shared by two people. Passion means strong emotion, excitement, and physiological arousal, often tied to sexual desire and attraction. Intimacy refers to mutual understanding, warm affection, and mutual concern for the other person's welfare. Commitment is the conscious decision to stay in a relationship for the long haul. By putting together different combinations of the three ingredients, Sternberg's model describes several varieties of love and the...