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Androgynous
Having both male and female characteristics or qualities
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Anxious/ambivalent attachment style
Attachments marked by fear of abandonment and the feeling that one's needs are not being met
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Avoidant Attachment Style
Attachments marked by defensive detachment from the other
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Companionate Love
Affection and tenderness felt for those whose lives are entwined with our own
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Decision/Commitment
Factor on love scales composed of items tapping decision that one is in love with and committed to another
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Equity Rule
Each person's benefits and costs in a social relationship should be matched to the benefits and costs of the other
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Erotomania
A disorder involving the fixed (but incorrect) belief that one is loved by another, which persists in the face of strong evidence to the contrary
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Factor Analysis
A statistical technique for sorting test items or behaviors into conceptually similar groupings
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Intimacy
a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.
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Monogamy
the state or practice of being married to only one person at a time
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Need-based Rule
Each person in a social relationship provides benefits as the other needs them, without keeping account of individual costs and benefits
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Need to Belong
The human need to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships
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Passion
Factor on love scales composed of items tapping romantic attraction and sexual desire
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Passionate Love
A state of intense longing for union with another
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Polyandry
Marital arrangement involving one woman and more than one husband
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Polygamy
Marital custom in which either one man marries more than one woman or one woman marries more than one man
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Polygyny
Marital arrangement involving one man and more than one wife
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Secure Attachment Style
Attachments marked by trust that the other person will continue to provide love and support
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Secure Base
Comfort provided by an attachment figure, which allows the person to venture forth more confidently to explore the enviroment
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Sociosexual Orientation
The individual difference in the willingness to engage in sexual activity outside of a committed relationship.
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Two-Factor Theory of Love
Emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label of love
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