Correlates of styles of love

Lester, David; Philbrick, Joseph L.

doi:10.1016/0191-8869(88)90168-7

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“…If high-neuroticism individuals have difficulty with intimate relationships, then thoughts of such intimacy, at least when presented in high doses as in this condition in Study 3, may also increase the accessibility of death-related thoughts. Research by Lester and Philbrick (1988), which revealed that individuals high in neuroticism are often obsessed with love and are deeply depressed when separated from the loved one, further suggests that too much love may be scary for high-neuroticism individuals (e.g., Abdel-Khalek, 1998; Frazier & Foss-Goodman, 1988), perhaps because of the potential for loss. Given the unpredicted, post hoc nature of this finding and our interpretations and the lack of a two-way interaction within the love condition, it should be viewed with extreme caution and may, in fact, be spurious.…”

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Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem?

Goldenberg¹,

Pyszczynski

McCoy

et al. 1999

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Terror management theory posits that sex is a ubiquitous human problem because the creaturely aspects of sex make apparent our animal nature, which reminds us of our vulnerability and mortality. People minimize this threat by investing in the symbolic meaning offered by the cultural worldview. Because people high in neuroticism have difficulty finding or sustaining meaning, sex is a particular problem for them. In Study 1, mortality salience caused high-neuroticism participants to find the physical aspects of sex less appealing. Study 2 revealed that for such individuals thoughts of physical sex increase the accessibility of death-related thoughts. This finding was replicated in Study 3, which also showed that providing meaning by associating sex with love reduces the accessibility of death-related thoughts in response to thoughts of physical sex. These findings provide insight into why people high in neuroticism have conflicting thoughts about sexuality and why sexuality is so often regulated and romanticized.

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Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem?

Goldenberg¹,

Pyszczynski

McCoy

et al. 1999

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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186

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“…This association between neuroticism and felt love consensus knowledge may be possible due to the fact that individuals high in neuroticism still experience love, they simply do not have lasting love experiences (not tested here). For example, facets of neuroticism like impulsivity are related to manic love experiences (Lester & Philbrick, 1988; Middleton, 1993; Woll, 1989), and thus, possibly more love experiences. Thus, the common characteristic of both agreeableness and neuroticism could be the amount of experience with love.…”

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What does it mean to feel loved: Cultural consensus and individual differences in felt love

Heshmati

Oravecz

Pressman

et al. 2017

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Cultural consensus theory is a statistical framework (CCT) for the study of individual differences in the knowledge of culturally shared opinions. In this article, we demonstrate how a CCT analysis can be used to study individual differences and cultural consensus on what makes people feel loved, or more generally any social behaviors that are governed by cognitive schemata. To highlight the advantages of the method, we describe a study in which people reported on their everyday experiences of feeling loved. Our unique approach to understanding this topic is to focus on people's cognitive evaluations on what feeling loved (both romantically and nonromantically) entails by exploring the shared agreement regarding when one is most likely to feel loved and the individual differences that influence knowledge of these shared agreements. Our results reveal that people converge on a consensus about indicators of expressed love and that these scenarios are both romantic and nonromantic. Moreover, people show individual differences in (1) the amount of knowledge they have about this consensus and (2) their guessing biases in responding to items on love scenarios, depending on personality and demographics-all conclusions made possible by the CCT method.

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“…For example, based on a small sample of US students, Woll (1989) found (using the Personality Research Form) that Ludus was significantly related to measures of aggression and play, while Agape was significantly related to emotional sensitivity. Davies (1996) used the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to assess the links between personality and loving styles among British students and concluded that extraversion (E) was significantly related to Eros and Ludus, while neuroticism (N) was linked with low Pragma and high Mania (see also the results of Lester & Philbrick, 1988). Psychoticism was significantly positively related to Ludus and negatively related to Agape and Storge.…”

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Loving styles: relationships with personality and attachment styles

et al. 2004

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We investigated the ability of the major personality dimensions, some of their underlying facet scales, and attachment styles to predict primary and secondary loving styles, as conceptualized by Lee. Personality was assessed using the International Personality Item Pool, and attachment styles through an inventory devised by Collins and Read. Respondents were 302 undergraduate students (212 females; 90 males) who participated in the study in exchange for course credit. Results of regression path analysis showed that N was the only personality dimension without direct predictive links to loving styles. Instead, the influence of N was through an anxious attachment style. There were no personality predictors of Agape, and similarities were also observed between these results and those obtained in Hong Kong. The results are discussed with reference to previous studies and some suggestions for further research are also noted. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Correlates of styles of love

Cited by 21 publications

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Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem?

Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem?

What does it mean to feel loved: Cultural consensus and individual differences in felt love

Loving styles: relationships with personality and attachment styles

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