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citeseerx-ist-psu-edu-8212		CiteSeerX — MEASUREMENT OF ROMANTIC LOVE1			.html	application/xhtml+xml	520	64	53	This study reports Ihc initial results of an attempt to introduce and validate a social-psychological construct oi " romantic love. The conception of romantic love included three com-ponents: affiliative and dependent need, a predisposition to help, and an orienta-tion of exclusiveness and absorption. The validity of the love scale was assessed in a questionnaire study and a laboratory experiment. In Western culture, moreover, the association between love and marriage gives it a unique status as a link between the individual and the structure of society. Although interpersonal attraction has been a major focus of social-psychological theory and research, workers in this area have not at-tempted to conceptualize love as an inde-pendent entity. The re-search was supported by a prccloctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and by a grant-in-aid from the Society for the PsychoKeyphrases social-psychological construct oi romantic love 	./cache/citeseerx-ist-psu-edu-8212.html	./txt/citeseerx-ist-psu-edu-8212.txt