Pathfinder: PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos| 

SCOPE: Researchers refer to the concept of love in terms of three underlying dimensions: intimacy which includes the central features of love, such as the feeling to talk about anything(honesty,openness, and understanding); commitment which includes love and the features of devotion, protectiveness, sacrifice; and passion which includes euphoria, excitement, sex appeal and sexual passion. ( Kazdin, The Encyclopedia of Psychology) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for students in locating library resources on this topic. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS 

Books dealing with the psychology of love are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

Love-Psychological aspects 
Intimacy (Psychology)
Interpersonal relations
Sex (Psychology)

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF BF 149.C36 1998 A Century of Psychology as Science 
REF BF 31.E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology 
REF BF575.A86 H36 1999 Handbook of Attachment 

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library :

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Buss, David M. The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex. New York: Free Press, 2000.

Buss, David M. The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. New York:
Basic Books, 1994.

Hatfield, Elaine. Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1993.

Hudson, Liam. Intimate Relations: The Natural History of Desire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Jankowiak, William. Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Lampert, Ada. The Evolution of Love. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1997.

Lasswell, Marcia E. Styles of Loving: Why You Love the Way You Do. Garden 
City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1980.

Lewis, Thomas. A General Theory of Love. New York: Random House, 2000.

Sternberg, Robert J. Cupids Arrow: The Course of Love Through Time. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Sternberg, Robert J. Love is a Story: A New Theory of Relationships. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Sternberg, Robert J. and Michael L. Barnes. The Psychology of Love. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of the psychology of love are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS 

American Psychologist
Journal of Psychology 
Psychology Today
Psychological Review

VIDEOS 

BF692.C52 1997 Chemistry of Love 
HQ801.M9 2001 Mysteries of Mating