From Passionate to Companionate Love A Two-Factor Model of Romantic-Passion Dissolution

Date of Award

2004

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Callahan, Charlene

Keywords

Love, Passion Dissolution, Misattribution of Arousal

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

The present study was designed to demonstrate that the emotional arousal associated with passionate love can be misattributed to a subsequently presented, unrelated stimulus. Under the guise of an investigation of subliminal perception, participants viewed a film segment pre-tested to induce passionate-arousal. They then listened to a song that they had been told contained symptom-inducing subliminal messages. In a double-blind manipulation, experimental group members were given a list of the 'anticipated effects of the messages,' which included only those symptoms actually generated by the film segment; control group members were given a list of effects that were inconsistent with the film-segment-induced arousal. It was expected that members of the experimental group would misattribute their residual film-segment-induced passion and accordingly rate the film segment as significantly less passionately arousing than would control group members, thereby supporting a Two-Factor Model of Romantic-Passion Dissolution. However, the effect of the manipulation was weak, which may explain why the main hypothesis was not supported, even among participants who rated the film segment as low in salience.

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