Love, desire, and the suppression of thoughts of romantic alternatives
Love, desire, and the suppression of thoughts of romantic alternatives
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DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.11.003
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Poore, Joshua C.
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作者：
Gonzaga, Gian C.;Haselton, Martie G.;Poore, Joshua C.
在人类社会中，人们形成了可以持续一生的长期浪漫关系。许多理论家提出，爱的情感在维持这些纽带中起着因果作用，但迄今为止还没有工作直接验证这一假设。在这项研究中，我们预测，对浪漫伴侣的爱有助于抑制对有吸引力的替代伴侣的想法。我们使用了一个重新体验的情感任务来诱导对浪漫伴侣的爱或性欲，并要求参与者抑制对有吸引力的替代品的想法。在抑制之后，与欲望条件下的参与者相比，爱情条件下的参与者报告了更少的关于有吸引力的替代品的想法，并且准确地回忆了更少的关于替代品的吸引力相关细节。在研究过程中，爱的报告，而不是性欲，预测了对当前伴侣的更大承诺。这些结果表明，爱的功能与欲望不同，爱可以作为一种承诺手段。(c)2008年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Across human societies, people form long-term romantic bonds that can last a lifetime. Many theorists have proposed that the emotion love plays a causal role in maintaining these bonds, but no work to date has tested this hypothesis directly. In this study, we predicted that feeling love for a romantic partner would facilitate suppressing thoughts of attractive alternative mates. We used a relived emotion task to induce love or sexual desire for a romantic partner and asked participants to suppress thoughts of an attractive alternative. After suppression, participants in the love condition reported fewer thoughts of the attractive alternative and accurately recalled fewer attractiveness-related details about the alternative than those in the desire condition. Reports of love, but not sexual desire, predicted greater commitment to the current partner during the study. These results suggest that love serves a function distinct from desire and that love can operate as a commitment device. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.