Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective

IF 4.4 2区化学 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

ACS Applied Polymer Materials Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI:10.1177/09637214231217663

Emily A. Impett, H. Park, A. Muise

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Abstract

The public has something of an obsession with love languages, believing that the key to lasting love is for partners to express love in each other’s preferred language. Despite the popularity of Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages, there is a paucity of empirical work on love languages, and collectively, it does not provide strong empirical support for the book’s three central assumptions that (a) each person has a preferred love language, (b) there are five love languages, and (c) couples are more satisfied when partners speak one another’s preferred language. We discuss potential reasons for the popularity of the love languages, including the fact that it enables people to identify important relationship needs, provides an intuitive metaphor that resonates with people, and offers a straightforward way to improve relationships. We offer an alternative metaphor that we believe more accurately reflects a large body of empirical research on relationships: Love is not akin to a language one needs to learn to speak but can be more appropriately understood as a balanced diet in which people need a full range of essential nutrients to cultivate lasting love.

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科学透镜下的大众心理学：从人际关系科学的角度评估爱的语言

公众对 "爱的语言 "颇为痴迷，认为持久爱情的关键在于伴侣之间用对方喜欢的语言表达爱意。尽管查普曼的《爱的五种语言》一书很受欢迎，但有关爱的语言的实证研究却很少，总的来说，这些研究并没有为该书的三个核心假设提供强有力的实证支持，这三个假设是：（a）每个人都有一种偏爱的爱的语言；（b）有五种爱的语言；（c）当伴侣说彼此偏爱的语言时，夫妻双方会更满意。我们讨论了 "爱的语言 "广受欢迎的潜在原因，包括它能帮助人们识别重要的关系需求，提供了一种能引起人们共鸣的直观隐喻，以及提供了一种改善关系的直接方法。我们提出了另一种隐喻，相信它能更准确地反映大量关于人际关系的实证研究：爱情并不像一门需要学习的语言，而可以更恰当地理解为一种平衡的饮食，人们需要全面的必需营养来培养持久的爱情。

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ACS Applied Polymer Materials Multiple-

CiteScore

7.20

自引率

6.00%

发文量

810

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Polymer Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology relevant to applications of polymers. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates fundamental knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, polymer science and chemistry into important polymer applications. The journal is specifically interested in work that addresses relationships among structure, processing, morphology, chemistry, properties, and function as well as work that provide insights into mechanisms critical to the performance of the polymer for applications.