Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We ChooseFalling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices when it comes to this complicated emotion. Packed with helpful suggestions for those seeking love and those already in it, this book is about love's many puzzles. The second edition furthers the work of the popular and successful first edition. With expanded research, theory, and practice, this book once again provides one of a kind understandings of the experience of love. The new edition offers updated references to recent research, new chapter exercises, and "case examples" of romantic stories to begin each chapter. |
From inside the book
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... romantic relationships they enter will be satisfying. Using theories in clinical psychology, people can figure out why they fall in love with particular persons or a particular category of people. Although researchers find clinicians ...
... romantic relationships.6 The second was a cross-cultural study that compared American and Israeli accounts of falling in love.7 The third study, using 100 couples, compared the reasons each partner gave for why he or she had fallen in ...
... partner just when he was expected to leave for a long trip abroad describes the effect of the expected separation on the development of their romantic relationship: Our first date was unbelievable. We came home at 2 am, talked the whole ...
... romantic image that determines with whom we fall in love. Chapter 11 demonstrates the operation of the romantic image in four stories told by a man and a woman who describe intimate and satisfying relationships and a man and a woman who ...
... partner according to strictly logical considerations. He spent many long ... romantic love—the people in these relationships, and the studies about them ... ROMANTIC CHOICES: Increasing the Likelihood of Falling in Love.
Contents
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How We Choose the Loves We Choose | 105 |
Part Three ROMANTIC LOVE IN LONGTERM RELATIONSHIPS | 177 |
ROMANTIC CHOICES WORKSHOPS | 205 |
ANALYZING A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP | 213 |
RESEARCH FINDINGS | 215 |
NOTES | 221 |
REFERENCES | 245 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 265 |
PHOTO PERMISSIONS | 266 |
INDEX | 267 |