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Love is Blind
Effect of Romantic Attraction on Self and Partner Perception
ISBN/EAN: 9783639412222
Umbreit-Nr.: 3645577
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 80 S.
Format in cm: 0.5 x 22 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 22.05.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- Revision with unchanged content. Love is blind, according to Shakespeare. Everybody would agree with that. But do we fall in love because we are blind, or does love turn us blind when we are crazy about someone? Surprisingly little empirical research has been devoted to testing this important issue explicitly. In this book the author reasons that romantic attraction is an important motivational force that drives people to develop biased perceptions of the partner and the self. In other words, it is more likely that love makes us blind rather than blindness leads to love. In particular, it is hypothesized that romantic attraction leads to positively biased partner perceptions (i.e., the positivity bias), enhanced self perceptions, and perceptions of ones partner as overly similar to ones actual self (i.e., the similarity bias) and as overly similar to ones ideal self (i.e., the idealization bias). Two experimental studies were conducted to test these hypotheses. Study 1 used a sample of individuals who were single and attraction to a bogus partner was manipuated, whereas Study 2 used individuals who just started dating and attraction to their real partner was manipulated. Across different samples and different attraction manipulations, robust and replicable evidence was found that increased attraction led to the positivity, similarity, and idealization biases.
- Autorenportrait
- Is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina/Wilmington. She grew up in a small town of Hunan Province in Southern China. She attended Beijing University as a psychology major and received her B.S. and M.ED. In 1999 she came to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the University of Iowa.