A. How Psychologists have defined love?
love is a sequence of lust, attraction and attachment.
domain of Psychology
It was the psychologists who out of all the scientific disciplines started investigating the subject of love. This is understandable, because in the earlier years of psychology, a majority of the patients were women, and from wealthy families. Love has always been an important and fascinating subject for women. Fiction novels and dramas around the subject of love have always had more female consumers.
A state of intense longing for union with another. Passionate love is a complex functional whole including appraisals or appreciations, subjective feelings, expressions, patterned physiological processes, action tendencies, and instrumental behaviors. Reciprocated love (union with the other) is associated with fulfillment and ecstasy; unrequited love (separation) with emptiness, anxiety, or despair
Hatfield E., Rapson R. L. (1993).1
Hatfield was the first to formally present a framework for love, which kept evolving over the period of time.
