| agape | The giving love. Agape is the generous love that puts others before self. 62
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| ambivalence | Being simultaneously attracted to and repulsed by a person, object, or action. 54
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| androgynous | Exhibiting both male and female traits; being both feminine and masculine. 55
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| behavioral psychologists or learning theorists | Psychologists who see behavior as conditioned by reward and punishment. 60
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| bisexual | Having or desiring sex partners of both sexes. 66
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| circumscribing | Restricting areas of communication to "safe" topics. 72
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| companionate love | A less emotionally intense form of love involving friendly affection and deep attachment. 62
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| differentiating | In partnership disintegration, moving from a strongly shared identity to a more individual identity. 71
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| eros | The erotic love style. Erotic love is intense, passionate, and sensual. 62
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| heterosexual | Having or desiring partners of the other sex. 66
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| homosexual | Having or desiring partners of one's own sex. 66
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| humanistic psychology | A psychological model that emphasizes a person's conscious feelings and intellectual processes and the development of one's maximum potential. 61
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| infatuation | A state of strong sexual attraction to someone based mainly on his or her resemblance to a lover fantasy. 57
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| intimacy | A sense of closeness including emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual bonds. 57
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| jealousy | Fear of losing someone's exclusive love. 71
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| ludus | The playful love style. Ludus is associated with lack of commitment. Love is just for fun, a game to be played. 62
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| mania | The obsessive love style. Manic lovers experience swings of mood ranging from ecstasy to despair. 62
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| passionate love | A strong emotional state of confused feelings: tenderness and sexuality, elation and pain, anxiety and relief, altruism and jealousy. 62
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| pragma | Practical love. Pragma is pragmatic and logical, rather than emotional. 62
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| psychoanalysis | A psychological model that emphasizes past experiences and the unconscious mind as motivating forces for human feelings and behavior. 60
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| self-actualization | Using our full inherent potential as human beings. 61
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| sexual orientation | Whether a person is attracted to people of the same, the other, or both sexes. 66, 289
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| stagnating | Not advancing or developing. 72
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| storge | The companionate love style. Storge is a slowly developing, "comfortable" form of love. 62
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education