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  2. Misattribution of arousal - Wikipedia

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    An example of the possible effects of misattribution of arousal is perceiving a potential partner as more attractive because of a heightened state of physiological stress. A study done by White et al. (1981) [ 2 ] investigated this phenomenon and found that those in an unrelated aroused state will rate an attractive confederate more highly than ...

  3. Myths of romantic love - Wikipedia

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    These myths typically define romantic love as naturally including: soulmate status, exclusive loving, sexual fidelity, jealousy as love, desire for marriage, eternal passion, falling in love is love's maximum, that "love conquers all", and monogamy is universal. Like all false conceptions they are believed to be impossible to perfectly fulfill ...

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Greater likelihood of recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples, and the imputation of importance to those examples over others. Bizarreness effect: Bizarre material is better remembered than common material. Boundary extension: Remembering the background of an image as being larger or more expansive than the ...

  5. The pleasure principle: How a false start became the ... - AOL

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    The post The pleasure principle: How a false start became the foundation for love appeared first on TheGrio. As theGrio wraps its weeklong celebration of Black love, Lisa Pilot and Gregory ...

  6. Theories of love - Wikipedia

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    Such as, "affection", similar to "companionate love" in social psychology field, is the term most strongly co-occurs with terms in its generic sub-cluster and not with other terms in other sub-cluster groups: "Affection" for example contrasts significantly with "passionate love", which belongs to the second large sub-cluster – "lust".

  7. Triangular theory of love - Wikipedia

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    Fatuous love can be exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage—it has points of passion and commitment but no intimacy. An example of this is infatuation. [11] Consummate love is the complete form of love. Of the seven varieties of love, consummate love is theorized to be that associated with the "perfect couple".

  8. Sexual script theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, marriage laws and vows, as well as laws against certain sexual behaviors or relationships, all play a part in guiding people's behavior. [3] It's customary for the male to indicate, or at least present, a greater initial enthusiasm in sexual relations in a typical male-female romantic relationship. [ 3 ]

  9. False pleasure - Wikipedia

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    False pleasure may be a pleasure based on a false belief, or a pleasure compared with more real, or greater pleasures. [1] Lacan maintained that philosophers should seek to "discern not true pleasures from false, for such a distinction is impossible to make, but the true and false goods that pleasure points to".