Love is an important component of human socioemotional development throughout the lifespan. In Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, love relationships have three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment.
Intimacy is the ability to open-up, sharing one’s deepest and most secret thoughts/feelings with another.
Passion is the strong (physical) desire for another person.
Commitment is the conviction that one will stay with another, regardless of the personal cost.
How these elements match up and change determines a couple’s closeness and longevity. The possible forms of love are:
Nonlove None of the love components present
Liking Intimacy alone
Infatuation passion alone
Empty love commitment alone
Romantic love intimacy and passion present, but lacking commitment
Fatuous love commitment and passion present without intimacy
Companionate love commitment and intimacy without passion
Consummate love intimacy, passion, and commitment all present
Considering Sternberg’s (1986) theory, identify the forms of love portrayed in these songs by Simon & Garfunkel below. Explain your answers for a total minimum word count of 500 words. Submit your response as a MS Word (.docx) file or a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file.
Cecilia
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3554
The Dangling Conversation
http://paulsimonsongs.blogspot.com/2010/02/dangling-conversation.html
Old Friends / Bookends
http://www.simonandgarfunkel.com/track/old-friendsbookends/
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