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Passion, Intimacy, and Time: Passionate Love as a Function of Change in Intimacy
Abstract
To build on existing theories about love, we propose that passion is a function of change in intimacy (i.e., the first derivative of intimacy overtime). Hence, passion will be low when intimacy is stable (either high or low), but rising intimacy will create a strong sense of passion. This view is able to account for a broad range of evidence, including frequency of sex in long-term relationships, intimate and sexual behavior of extraverts, gender differences in intimate behavior, gain and loss effects of communicated attraction, the biologically atypical human preference for face-to-face coitus, and patterns of distress in romantic breakups. Although this view may provide a good fit to available evidence, the totality of evidence is not yet adequate for a definitive conclusion, and suggestions for further research are offered.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Baumeister, R. F., & Bratslavsky, E.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-02
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 49-67
- ISSN
- 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7957
- OpenAlex
- W2008366069
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 95
- FWCI
- 5.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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