BASIS OF FALLING IN

LOVE
 BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF FALLING
IN LOVE
- This kind of model tends to view love as a mammalian drive

• Helen Fisher
-American anthropologist
-Researcher of human behavior
• Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic
Love:
 Lust - the feeling of sexual desire

Attraction – what partners mates find attractive

and pursue, conserving time and energy by
choosing

Attachment – involves sharing a home, parental

duties, mutual defense, and feelings of safety
and security
PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS OF FALLING
IN LOVE
•This tends to understand love in
the context of interpersonal
relationship
•Robert Sternberg
-Psychologist
ROBERT STERNBERG’S TRIANGULAR
THEORY OF LOVE
 • Triangular Theory of love:
- Intimacy – encompasses feelings of attachment,
closeness, connectedness, and blondeness
- Passion – a form in which two people share
confidence and various details for their personal lives
- Commitment – the decision to remain with another
• Isaac Michael “Zick” Rubin
- American social psychologist
• Three factors of Love:
- Attachment
- Caring
- Intimacy

• Erich Fromm
- Psychologist
• The Art Of Loving
EVOLUTIONARY BASIS OF FALLING IN
LOVE
Attempts to provide various reasons for love as a
survival tools and it seek to identify which humans
psychological traits are evolved. Love is considered as
a mechanism to promote parental support of children.

Anthropologist John Tooby and Psychologist Leda

Cosmides
 CULTURAL BASIS OF FALLING IN
LOVE
- Tries to explain that love is born and understood in the culture of a
particular society.

• In the Greek culture: 4 ways of Love

- Agape means love in a “spiritual sense” – a true unconditional love
- Eros is “physical” passionate love, with sensual desire and longing,
romantic and pure emotion without the balance of logic
- Philia is “mental” love. It means affectionate regard or friendship
- Storge means natural affection, like the love of the parents to the
 For Chinese and other Sinic
culture – love is understood in
the context of actions and duty
(Confucian) and the other came
from Mohism which is more on a
universal love.
 Confucian Ren (“benevolent love”)
- focuses on duty, action and attitude in a
relationship rather than love itself. A
benevolent person performs actions such as
filial piety from children, kindness from
parent, loyalty to the king and so forth.
In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed
by love and all is for love, starting from loving
friends and family, husband and wives, and
eventually reaching the divine love that is the
ultimate goal in life.

In the Japanese culture love is characterized by a

passionate caring love, and a fundamental desire.
 RELIGIOUS BASIS OF FALLING IN
LOVE
Tries to elucidate that love springs up from God. Love is
the essence of God.
In Christian the loves come from God.
In Hebrew, Ahava is the most commonly used term for
both interpersonal love and love between God and God’s
creations.
In the Islamic view of life as universal brotherhood that
applies to all who hold faith.
 In Buddhism, Kma is sensuous,
sexual love. It is an obstacle on the
path to enlightenment, since it is
selfish. KaruG is compassion and
mercy, which reduces the suffering
of others.
In Hinduism, kma is pleasurable, sexual love,
personified by the god Kamadeva. Karuma is
compassion and mercy, which impels one to
help reduce the suffering for others. Bhakti is
a Sanskrit term, meaning “loving devotion to
the supreme God.
 POLITICAL BASIS OF FALLING IN
LOVE
Martha Nussbaum, a liberal feminist, amid the
fears, resentments and competitive concerns that
are endemic even to good societies, public
emotions rooted in love – in intense attachments
to things outside our control