Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) index.
Contents
pt. 1. Composition of Cupid's arrow: what is love? -- ch. 1. Three-component view of love -- ch. 2. Seven kinds of love -- ch. 3. Many different triangles of love -- ch. 4. Measuring the triangle of love -- pt. 2. Aiming Cupid's arrow: love over many lifetimes -- ch. 5. Prehistory of love -- ch. 6. History of love revealed through culture (in collaboration with Anne E. Beall) -- ch. 7. History of love revealed through literature (in collaboration with Susan Hayden) -- pt. 3. Firing Cupid's arrow: love in our lifetime: beginnings -- ch. 8. Role of childhood and adolescence -- ch. 9. Role adulthood -- pt. 4. Cupid's arrow in flight: love in our lifetime: middles -- ch. 10. Role of reward -- ch. 11. Course of relationships -- pt. 5. When Cupid's arrow falls: love in our lifetime: endings -- ch. 12. Decay of relationships -- ch. 13. Dissolution of and new beginnings for relationships.