Psychology View of Love

Psychology depicts love as a cognitive and social occurrence. Psychologist Robert Sternberg formulate a triangular theory of love and argued that love has three different mechanism: intimacy, commitment, and passion. Intimacy is a form in which two people share confidence and various particulars of their personal lives. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and dreamy love affairs. Commitment, on the other hand, is the expectation that the association is permanent. The last and most common form of love is sexual magnetism and passion. Passionate love is shown in obsession as well as romantic love. All forms of love are viewed as varying combination of these three mechanism.

Following development in electrical theories, such as Coulomb's law, which showed that positive and negative charges attract, analogs in human life were urbanized, such as "opposites attract". Over the last century, research on the nature of human mate has generally found this not to be true when it comes to character and character; people tend to like people similar to themselves. However, in a few strange and specific domains, such as immune systems, it seems that human prefer others who are unlike themselves, since this will lead to a baby which has the finest of both worlds. In fresh years, various human bonding theories have been residential described in terms of attachment, ties, bonds, and affinity.