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The Arc of Love

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by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev


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  Index

  Acevedo, Bianca, 4, 245n6

  Ackerman, Joshua M., 250n15

  actualization, degree of, 92

  addiction, 39, 43–44, 58, 111, 150–52, 155–56, 162, 177–79, 185, 188

  adultery, 162, 205, 207, 214–15

  affective attitudes and states, 21–22, 231

  affective time, 20

  afterglow, 180–81, 188

  Agnew, Christopher R., 248n23

  Ajzen, Icek, 246n15

  Alder, Shannon L., 131

  alternative, availability of, 18, 74, 99–100, 110–11, 115–17, 153, 185, 193, 224, 236

  Alzheimer’s disease, 172, 198–99

  ambivalence, 23, 25, 65, 90, 208

  Amichai-Hamburger, Yair, 251n26

  Amodio, David M., 245n12

  Anapol, Deborah, 251n7

  Anderson, Jared R., 248n9

  anger, 20–21, 23, 103, 159, 173–74

  Angier, Tom, 252n1

  Anglo-Saxon tradition, 205–6

  Anouilh, Jean, 9

  Apple, Fiona, 96

  Ariely, Dan, 223, 252n3

  Aristotle, 2, 28, 46, 53–54, 62, 101, 146, 154, 167, 247n7, 247n29, 252n1; eudaimonia, 27, 221–22; hedone, 27

  Armenta, Christina N., 247n14

  Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen, 245n3

  Aron, Arthur, 173, 250n10, 252n19

  Aron, Elaine, 222, 252n2

  arousal, 181; continuum, 231; transfer, 173–74

  attachment theory, 252n15

  attractiveness, 7, 32–41, 49, 65–66, 94, 99, 103, 111–13, 117, 134–35, 137, 173, 180–81, 224

  Auden, Wystan Hugh, 78, 104

  Austen, Jane, 17

  autonomy, 47, 49, 63, 96, 106–7, 131, 135, 157, 171, 225, 229

  Averill, James R., 252n17

  backup mates, 93–95

  Bailey, Philip James, 221

  Baker, Levi R., 249n4

  balance, 16–17, 28, 31, 41, 43, 48–49, 56, 62–63, 67–68, 81, 86, 114, 129, 154, 166–67, 178–79, 200, 220–21, 223, 229–31, 235–39, 243

  Ball, Lucille, 133

  Bardot, Brigitte, 43, 126

  Barelds, Dick P. H., 250n8

  Barelds-Dijkstra, Pieternel, 250n8

  Barker, Meg-John, 251n10

  Bar-Nadav, Ofri, 196, 251n8

  Bauman, Zygmunt, 248n9, 249n3

  Baumeister, Roy F., 83–84, 245n4, 246n10, 246n18, 247n3, 247n4, 248n1, 248n2, 248n3, 252n6

  Beatles, 9, 14, 83

  beauty, 6, 34–37, 49, 51, 78, 118

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 172, 203

  Becker, Gary S., 250n5

  Beckett, Samuel, 49

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bsp; Beedie, Christopher, 246n8

  Bee Gees, 144

  behavioral complexity, 23, 25

  belonging, 10, 82–84, 106, 178, 187, 197

  Benjamin, Le, 248n23

  Ben-Ze’ev, Avinoam, 85, 237

  Ben-Ze’ev, Yehuda, 230

  Bergen, Karla Mason, 227, 252n5, 252n7

  Berggren, Niclas, 246n5

  Bergman, Ingrid, 16

  Berscheid, Ellen, 245n4, 246n10

  Biermann, Wolf, 206

  Binstock, Georgina, 248n7, 249n25, 252n18

  Birditt, Kira S., 245n8, 248n9, 248n10, 251n6

  Birnbaum, Gurit, 42, 60, 246n16, 246n17, 247n20, 247n21, 247n22

  Bishop, Stephen, 30

  Blake, William, 160

  Bogaert, Anthony F., 251n11

  Boyle, Paul J., 249n26

  Bradsell, June, 88

  Brand, Russell, 202

  Bratslavsky, Ellen, 245n4, 246n10

  Brel, Jacques, 235

  Brewis, Alexandra, 245n4

  bringing out the best, 13, 56–57, 62, 90, 96, 132, 137–38, 143

  Brodsky, Archie, 156, 250n14

  Brogaard, Berit, 171, 247n19, 250n7

  Brothers, Joyce, 232

  Brown, H. Jackson, Jr., 17, 249n3

  Brown, John Mason, 179

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 53, 126

  Bruch, Elizabeth E., 249n31

  Bruckner, Pascal, 85, 248n6

  Brunning, Luke, 246n10, 251n6, 251n14

  Buber, Martin, 46, 247n23

  Buddha, 209

  Bush, George W., 141

  Buss, David, 4, 93, 245n4, 248n18, 248n19

  Byrne, Donn, 248n8

  Cacioppo, John T., 251n23

  Cacioppo, Stephanie, 246n10

  Caine, Rachel, 11

  Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 150

  Call, Vaughn, 245n4

  calmness, 11, 15, 72–73, 79–80, 121, 162, 190–91, 200, 218, 220, 225, 230–33, 238–39, 242

  Campbell, Joseph, 237

  Cannarella, Rich, 154

  care model, 32, 45, 47–49, 60–61, 64, 82, 199

  Carmichael, Cheryl L., 251n2

  Carstensen, Laura, 8, 192–93, 245n17, 251n3, 251n4, 251n5, 251n6

  Castro, Fidel, 156

  Chan, Micaela Y., 251n13

  Chanel, Coco, 83

  change, 2–3, 5–8, 13, 15, 17–19, 21, 28, 30, 33, 40–41, 50, 55–58, 63–65, 68, 74–75, 77, 96, 98, 107, 111, 116, 128, 147–48, 151, 173, 177, 184–87, 190–92, 195–96, 198, 200–201, 203, 207, 211, 224–25, 232, 235–36

  Charles, Ray, 70

  Charles, Susan T., 251n5, 251n6

  checklist, 131–33, 136, 138, 143

  Chekhov, Anton, 50

  Cho, Margaret, 99

  choosing a partner, 91, 100, 106, 108, 117, 126, 131–43, 154

  Churchill, Winston, 32, 181

  Cialdini, Robert, B., 252n17

  Ciardi, John, 192

  Cicero, 62

  Cicero, Roger, 34–35

  Clanton, Gordon, 250n2

  Clark, Jean Illsley, 214

  Clark, Margaret, 59–61, 247n19, 247n23

  Clarke, John Cooper, 115

  closeness, 47, 51, 178, 220, 225–30

  Coburn, William J., 247n24

  Cocker, Joe, 34

  Cohen, Leonard, 12

  Cole, Nat King, 65, 111

  commitment, 6, 14, 38, 60, 62, 84, 91–94, 99–100, 107, 111–12, 149, 157–58, 161–62, 164, 167, 182, 185, 207, 209, 227

  commuter marriage, 226–28

  companionate love, 4, 106, 162, 193

  compassion, 73, 90, 115, 172, 198, 214

  compatibility, 48–49, 91, 96, 99, 134, 137

  compersion, 215–19

  complement, 57, 61–62, 131, 182, 186, 208, 234

  complexity, 23–27, 30, 40, 68, 88, 90–92, 112, 142, 151, 208–9, 212, 237–38

  conflict, 2, 10, 13, 31–32, 43–44, 49, 58, 69–70, 79–80, 97, 112–14, 116–17, 128, 154, 169–70, 184, 191, 193–94, 196, 208, 215, 223, 225, 227

  Confucius, 50, 122–23

  Conley, Terri, D., 251n11

  Conroy, Pat, 157

  consistency, 50, 64–66, 69, 164, 171, 191, 238

  Coolidge, Calvin, 5–6

  Coolidge Effect, 6

  cooling-off behaviors, “in-due-course” policy and “playing hard to get,” 79–80

  Coombs, Robert H., 248n2

  Coontz, Stephanie, 85, 248n5

  Croce, Jim, 70

  Crosby, Stills & Nash, 115

  Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 247n10

  Cuppy, Will, 204

  curiosity, 146–48; window-shopping, 94–95, 149–50, 162

  Curtis, Chris, 4

  cybersex, 181–92

  cyberspace, 135–36, 146, 181–92

  dancing, 22, 24, 53, 61, 121, 151

  Dangerfield, Rodney, 38, 91, 163, 174

  Danovich, Tove K., 251n17

  Day, Lisa C., 250n4

  death, 3, 5, 43, 75, 106–7, 172, 180, 190, 192, 194–99

  Deitz, Bibi, 167, 250n3

  deliberative thinking, 53, 63, 97–98, 138

  del Mar Salinas-Jiménez, M., 246n24

  dementia, 198–200

  de Rabutin, Roger, 229

  Deresiewicz, William, 186–87, 251n25

  Deri, Jillian, 251n7

  de Sousa, Ronnie, 246n15, 247n19, 252n21

  DeSteno, David A., 247n18, 252n20

  development, 16, 20–22, 29–31, 41–43, 47–48, 50, 55–58, 60, 68, 71, 78, 85, 90, 92, 96–97, 106, 113, 129, 138, 143, 151–52, 155–57, 161, 166–67, 191, 198, 210, 220–21, 223, 242

  Dew, Jeffrey, 250n6

  dialogue model, 45–49, 60, 84, 126, 198–99

  Diamond, Lisa M., 251n14

  Diana, Princess, 10

  Diener, Ed, 29, 246n21, 251n13

  Diller, Phyllis, 51

  Diogenes the Cynic, 177

  Dion, Celine, 65

  dispositional, 17, 21–22, 30, 71, 157

  dissatisfaction, 14, 28–31, 63, 112, 145, 153–54, 212, 223, 234

  distance, 35, 58, 77, 79, 158, 185, 188, 220, 225–30, 238

  diversity, 8, 23–30, 92, 130, 136, 190, 201, 203–4, 208, 219–20, 237–39

  Drifters, 121

  drifting, 96–101, 107, 167

  Drigotas, Stephen M., 247n15

  Dubin, Al, 224

  Dushku, Eliza, 34

  Dutton, Donald, 173, 250n10

  Dwyer, Ryan J., 247n28

  Dylan, Bob, 96

  Eagles, 111

  Eastwick, Paul, 129, 249n4

  eating, 39, 80, 176–79, 184, 188, 240

  effort, 9, 43, 74, 79, 95, 98, 105–6, 109, 116, 168, 185, 194, 196, 210, 214, 225–26, 232, 237–38

  egalitarianism, 102, 123

  Einstein, Albert, 201

  Ellison, Christopher G., 247n27

  Elster, Jon, 44, 247n18

  emotional characteristics and concerns: acute emotions, 17–21, 30, 38, 43, 55–56, 98, 159; emotional intelligence, 26, 43; enduring emotions, 6, 17, 20–22, 30; expanded emotions, 17, 20–21

  Empedocles, 62

  envy, 82, 101–4, 107, 170, 201, 214–16, 219

  Ephron, Nora, 33

  Epstein, Brian, 14

  equality/inequality, 10, 45, 47–48, 63, 82, 84, 101–7, 112, 115

  equity theory, 103

  Esch, Tobias, 245n18

  Etcoff, Nancy, 33, 246n2

  Evans, Elizabeth, 89

  excitement, 15–16, 39, 77, 83, 92, 111, 120–21, 147, 173, 175, 181, 184, 188, 190–92, 200, 225, 230–32, 238–39, 242

  exclusivity, 38–39, 44–45, 66, 100, 108, 179, 182–88, 196–97, 204–6, 212, 218–19, 234, 237–38

  ex-lovers, 70, 73–78, 121, 236

  extramarital affairs, 3, 25, 39–40, 67, 93, 103, 107, 118, 120–21, 131, 138, 148, 178, 181, 185, 194, 199, 204–6, 215–19, 227

  eyes, significance of, 16, 35, 51, 68, 89, 121, 133, 135, 224, 230–31, 240
/>   Fallon, Leigh, 133

  familiarity, 2, 4–7, 23, 33, 40–41, 57, 77, 89, 98, 111, 129, 191, 203, 231

  fantasy, 33, 75, 93, 111, 182, 213

  Faulkner, William, 74

  Finkel, Eli, 85, 87, 137, 245n4, 245n7, 245n12, 247n16, 248n7, 248n8, 248n11, 250n13, 250n14, 250n16

  Fisher, Helen, 147, 201, 250n4

  Flaubert, Gustave, 3, 110

  Fletcher, Garth, 224, 252n4

  flexibility, 86, 111, 183–84, 201, 203–4, 220, 235–36, 238–39

  flirting, 64, 94, 145, 150

  Floyd, Kory, 251n16

  Foreigner, 146

  forgiveness, 73, 198

  Forste, Renata, 249n15

  Francis of Assisi, 169

  Frank, Robert H., 249n1

  Frankfurt, Harry, 247n20, 249n3, 249n17; doctrine of sufficiency, 123

  Franklin, Benjamin, 133

  Frederick, Shane, 246n20

  Fredrickson, Barbara, 210, 247n24, 247n29, 251n8

  Freud, Sigmund, 64

  Friedan, Betty, 180

  friendship, 3, 16, 24, 101, 113, 158–59, 164–65, 193, 200, 223, 233; and sex, 38–41, 49, 93; value, compared with romantic love, 237–38

  friendship with benefits, 140–41, 163–65, 186–87, 202–3

  Frijda, N. H., 246n1, 246n6, 246n7, 246n16, 246n20

  Fromm, Erich, 45, 247n21

  Frost, Robert, 110

  Fugère, Madeleine A., 246n1

  Fuller, Thomas, 122

  Furtak, Rick Anthony, 246n9

  fusion, 3, 45, 84, 225, 239

  Gable, Clark, 47

  Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 49, 86, 91, 130

  Galinsky, Adam D., 249n13

  Gaver, William W., 246n11

  Gayle, Crystal, 93, 233

  generosity, sexual, 169–73, 188, 211, 250

  Gerstel, Naomi, 252n6

  Gibran, Kahlil, 225

  Gigerenzer, Gerd, 133, 248n20, 249n6

  Gilbert, Daniel T., 245n14, 246n22

  Gill, Tripat, 247n5

  Gillibrand, Kirsten, 58

  Gilovich, Thomas, 245n15

  Girme, Yuthika U., 247n2, 247n26

  Glasgow, Ellen, 55

  globalization, 183, 235

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 222

  good-enough partner, 11, 13, 85–87, 108–9, 111, 117, 122–25, 152–53, 221

  Goodin, Robert, 116, 249n9

  Gordon, A., 249n7

  Gore, Lesley, 82

  Gottlieb, Lori, 136, 250n11

  Gottman, John M., 52, 128, 247n5, 249n2, 249n8

  Goussinsky, Ruhama, 245n2, 246n17, 248n12, 248n34, 251n3, 251n7

  Granovetter, Mark, 237

  gratification, 71, 77, 79, 117, 167, 221

  gratitude, 73, 115

 

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