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Romantic love and sexual desire in close relationships
Abstract
Drawing on recent claims in the study of relationships, attachment, and emotion, the authors hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment-related function and sexual desire a reproduction-related function. Consistent with these claims, in Study 1, brief experiences of romantic love and sexual desire observed in a 3-min interaction between romantic partners were related to distinct feeling states, distinct nonverbal displays, and commitment- and reproductive-related relationship outcomes, respectively. In Study 2, the nonverbal display of romantic love was related to the release of oxytocin. Discussion focuses on the place of romantic love and sexual desire in the literature on emotion.
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- Authors
- Gonzaga, G. C., Turner, R. A., Keltner, D., Campos, B., & Altemus, M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2006-05
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 163-179
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- OpenAlex
- W2152410293
- Cited by
- 292
- References
- 180
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (5T32MH15750-22)
- US Public Health Service (5 MO1 RR-00079)
- California School of Professional Psychology
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Keywords
- romantic love, sexual desire, close relationships, romantic partners, relationship commitment, reproduction, oxytocin, attachment
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Attitude, Cues, Demography, Ethnicity, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Libido, Love, Male, Nonverbal Communication, Object Attachment, Oxytocin, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Partners, Social Desirability, Biomarkers, Expressed Emotion
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