Can You Love More Than One Person at the Same Time? A Research Report
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
Anthropologica (Journal of Canadian Anthropology)
Volume
54
First page number:
95
Last page number:
105
Abstract
The contemporary U.S. American model of love is that it is essentially a dyadic bond between two and only two individuals. Out of this bond arises feelings of eroticism, passion, and companionship which somehow merge together to form a unified conceptual whole. Co-existing with this ideal is an alternative model that survives in the popular medium of films that holds out the possibility of simultaneously loving two people at the same time. Our study was designed to explore how individuals caught in a concurrent love bond experience and managed their relationships). Implications of our findings are discussed below
Keywords
Dual love; Polyamour; Sex differences; U.S. society
Disciplines
Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Language
English
Permissions
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Repository Citation
Jankowiak, W. R.,
Gerth, H.
(2012).
Can You Love More Than One Person at the Same Time? A Research Report.
Anthropologica (Journal of Canadian Anthropology), 54
95-105.