Reflecting the breath of love's myriad effects and possible causes, as well as the relatively recent volume of systematic scientific inquiry into these, the love literature is sprawling and unruly. Sternberg, however, has done an excellent job of selecting representative approaches and findings and presenting them to students in an organized, scholarly, and engaging way." Ellen Berscheid, PhD
Regents' Professor of Psychology Emeritus
University of Minnesota

While many people view love as a nebulous concept that is difficult to study scientifically, there exists a...