ABSTRACT
Walster suggested that there are two kinds of love: passionate love, involving a short and intense relationship; and companionate love, involving a close and enduring relationship. Clark and Mills differentiated between exchange relationships and communal relationships, suggesting that a benefit given in response to a benefit received would be appropriate in an exchange but not in a communal relationship, in which a benefit is given specifically to satisfy the other's need. Sternberg conceived of love as having three components: an emotional component, intimacy; a motivational component, passion; and a cognitive component, decision/commitment. The Marlowe-Crowne questionnaire of social desirability and Hendrick and Hendrick's Love Attitudes Scale were administered to 122 college students aged 18 to 38 years. The discrepancy between the present findings and previous findings on gender differences may be attributable to cross-cultural (US-UK) differences in love styles. However, differences in findings have also been reported across various college samples within the United States.
