Love is blind

Auteurs

• Shanhong Luo

Paramètres

• 76 pages
• 3 heures de lecture

• Psychologie

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Love is often described as blind, but does this blindness stem from our feelings or does love itself create this blindness? This book explores the idea that romantic attraction significantly influences how we perceive both our partners and ourselves. The author posits that love is more likely to blind us than our initial lack of clarity leads to love. Specifically, it is suggested that romantic attraction fosters positively biased perceptions of partners (the positivity bias), enhances self-perceptions, and creates a sense of similarity between partners (the similarity bias) and an idealized view of them (the idealization bias). Two experimental studies were conducted: the first involved single individuals with manipulated attraction to a fictitious partner, while the second focused on those who had just begun dating, with attraction to their real partners manipulated. Results consistently showed that increased attraction resulted in positivity, similarity, and idealization biases, though it had minimal impact on self-perceptions. Further analysis indicated that these effects were not merely due to mood. The findings have significant implications for understanding the causal relationship between attraction and perceptual biases, making this work relevant for relationship researchers, counselors, and psychologists across various fields.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2007
• Reliure: (souple)