Love is blind, according to Shakespeare. Everybody would agree with that. But
do we fall in love because we are blind, or does love turn us blind when we are
crazy about someone? Surprisingly little empirical research has been devoted to
testing this important issue explicitly. In this book the author reasons that romantic
attraction is an important motivational force that drives people to
develop biased perceptions of the partner and the self. In other words, it is more
likely that love makes us blind rather than blindness leads to love. In particular, it
is hypothesized that romantic...