Regulation of Romantic Love

Love feelings may be less or more intense than desired, such as in long-term relationships and during heartbreak. Therefore, it might be advantageous to regulate love feelings. Love regulation entails increasing or decreasing the intensity of current feelings of romantic love using behavioral or cognitive strategies. Some people think that love regulation is undesirable, difficult, or even impossible. Nevertheless, self-report and electrophysiological data from several studies have revealed that love up-regulation can be used to increase love feelings for long-term partners and that love down-regulation can be used to decrease love feelings for an ex-partner. In short, love up-regulation could reduce the incidence of break-ups and divorces due to declining love feelings and love down-regulation could reduce heartbreak.

» Sandra Langeslag, University of Missouri, St. Louis

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