Sternberg's Triangular model of Love

Triangular Model of Love by Robert J Sternberg

1. TRIANGULAR MODEL OF LOVE

2. Interpersonal love refers to love between human beings. It is a much more potent sentiment than a simple liking for a person. Interpersonal love is most closely associated with interpersonal relationships.Such love might exist between family members, friends, and couples.

3. Triangular Model of Love, proposed by Robert J. Sternberg in 1986, suggests that any interpersonal love relationship consists of three basic components: INTIMACY PASSION COMMITMENT

4. INTIMACY COMMITMENT PASSION CONSUMMATE LOVE ROMANTIC LOVE FATUOUS LOVE COMPANIONATE LOVE INFATUATION EMPTY LOVE LIKING

5. INTIMACY Intimacy refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships. Presence of bondedness, warmth, and closeness with another but not intense passion or long-term commitment. LIKING PASSION COMMITMENT

6. PASSION COMMITMENT INTIMACY INFATUATION Passion refers to the drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomena. Infatuation is presence of only the passion component.

7. COMMITMENT INTIMACY PASSION EMPTY LOVE Decision/commitment refers to the decision that one loves a certain other, and to one's commitment to maintain that love. Sometimes, love begins from this stage, or a stronger love deteriorates into empty love. Eg: Arranged marriages.

8. INTIMACY PASSION COMMITMENT ROMANTIC LOVE Romantic lovers are bonded emotionally and physically through passionate arousal.

9. INTIMACY PASSION COMMITMENT COMPANIONATE LOVE Commitment and intimacy without the passion component.

10. INTIMACY PASSION COMMITMENT FATUOUS LOVE Presence of commitment and passion, without the intimacy.

11. INTIMACY COMMITMENT PASSION CONSUMMATE LOVE Consummate love is the complete form of love. Consummate love may not be permanent., and is hard to maintain.

12. Non-love refers simply to the absence of all three components of love. The geometry of the "love triangle" depends upon two factors: Amount of love- Area of Triangle Balance of love- Shape of Triangle

13. The possibility of Multiple Triangles [Michele Acker and Mark Davis (1992)] Multiple triangles can exist because individuals can experience each component of love more intensely than another. Real triangles- Viewing of progress and depth of relationship. Ideal triangles - Ideal qualities of partner/relationship. Perceived triangles- Ideas of how partner views the relationship.

14. LIMITATIONS Although he predicted the stages of a person's love for another person, he did not specify a time or point in the relationship when the stages would evolve. He does not specify whether the different parts of love are dependent on duration of relationship or on the particular stage that relationship has reached.

15. Love as a Story: Large numbers of unique and different love stories convey different ways of how love is understood. The two theories create Sternberg's Duplex theory of love . Triangular Theory of Hate: Same as Triangular theory of Love, but the emotions manifest itself in the negative spectrum. The components of this theory are: Negotiation of Intimacy -Seeking of distance. Passion in the hate -Response to a threat. Commitment in hate -Contempt for targeted group. OTHER THEORIES

16. References: Baron,R.A.,& Branscombe,N.R.(2016) Social Psychology ( 13th Ed.). Noida, India: Dorling Kindersley. Duplex Theory of Love: Triangular Theory of Love and Theory of Love as a Story. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.robertjsternberg.com/love/ Triangular theory of love. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/community/slzctr/stdcsl/stdcsl_triangular.pdf