Scientific Foundations of Our Work

Sternberg, R. J., & Grajek, S. (1984). The nature of love. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 312–329.

Sternberg, R. J. (1985, April). The measure of love. Science Digest, 60, 78–79.

Sternberg, R. J., & Barnes, M. (1985). Real and ideal others in romantic relationships: Is four a crowd? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1586–1608.

Sternberg, R. J. (1986). A triangular theory of love. Psychological Review, 93, 119–135.

Sternberg, R. J. (1987). Explorations of love. In D. Perlman & W. Jones (Eds.), Advances in personal relationships (Vol. 1, pp. 171–196). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (1987). Liking versus loving: A comparative evaluation of theories. Psychological Bulletin, 102, 331–345.

Sternberg, R. J. (1988). Counting the ways: The scientific measurement of love. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The reality club I (pp. 151–173). New York: LYNX.

Sternberg, R. J. (1988).  Triangulating love. In R. J. Sternberg & M. Barnes (Eds.), The psychology of love (pp. 119–138). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.  

Sternberg, R. J. (1988). The triangle of love. New York: Basic.

Sternberg, R. J., & Barnes, M. (Eds.). (1988). The psychology of love. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Beall, A. E., & Sternberg, R. J. (1990). Love and science: Can the two be married? Journal of NIH Research, 2, 57–61.

Sternberg, R. J. (1991). Love the way you want it. New York: Bantam.

Sternberg, R. J., & Beall, A. (1991). How can we know what love is? An epistemological analysis. In G. J. O. Fletcher & F. D. Fincham (Eds.), Cognition in close relationships (pp. 257–278). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Sternberg, R. J. (1992, Capitulo 13). La naturaleza del amor [The nature of love.] El Pais: El Libro de la Sexualidad, pp. 196–199.

Sternberg, R. J. (1994). Love is a story. The General Psychologist, 30(1), 1–11.

Beall A. E., & Sternberg, R. J. (1995). The social construction of love. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12(3), 417–438.

Sternberg, R. J. (1995). Love as a story. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12 (4), 541–546.

Sternberg, R. J. (1996). Historias de amor [Stories of love.] Revista Psicología Contemporánea Año 3, 4–17.

Sternberg, R. J. (1996). Love stories. Personal Relationships, 3, 1359–1379.

Barnes, M. L., & Sternberg, R. J. (1997). A hierarchical model of love and its prediction of satisfaction in close relationships. In R. J. Sternberg, & M. Hojjat (Eds.). Satisfaction in close relationships (pp. 79–101). New York: Guilford Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (1997). Construct validation of a triangular love scale. European Journal of Social Psychology , 27(3), 313–335.

Sternberg, R. J., & Hojjat, M. (Eds.)(1997). Satisfaction in close relationships. New York: Guilford Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (1998). Cupid’s arrow: The course of love through time. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (1998). Love is a story. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (1999). Love. In D. Levinson, J. J. Ponzetti Jr., & P. F. Jorgensen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human emotions (Vol. 2, pp. 430–438). New York: Macmillan. 

Sternberg, R. J. (2000, July/August). What’s your love story? Psychology Today, 32(4), 52–55, 58–59.

Sternberg, R. J. (2000). When love stories become love traumas. Psych-Talk: Special Bulletin 1, 12–14. British Psychological Society.

Sternberg, R. J., Hojjat, M., & Barnes, M. L. (2001). Empirical aspects of a theory of love as a story. European Journal of Personality, 15(3), 199–218.

Sternberg, R.J. (2006).  A duplex theory of love.  In R. J. Sternberg & K. Weis (Eds.), The new psychology of love (pp. 184–199).  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. & Weis, K. (Eds.). (2006). The new psychology of love. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (2007). A triangular theory of love. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (Vol 2, pp. 997-998). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Weis, K., & Sternberg, R. J. (2008).  The nature of love.  In S. F. Davis & W. Buskist (Eds.), 21st century psychology: A reference handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 134-142).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Sternberg, K., & Sternberg, R. J. (2013). Love. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Sternberg, R. J. (2013).  Measuring love.  The Psychologist, 26(2), 101.

Sternberg, R. J. (2013).  Searching for love.  The Psychologist, 26(2), 98-101.

Sternberg, R. J. (2013).  What does “ I love you“ mean? In L. Bormans (Ed.), The world book of love (pp. 22-27).  Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo.

Sternberg, R. J. (2019).  Preface.  In R. J. Sternberg & K. Sternberg (Eds.), The new psychology of love (2nd ed., pp. xiii-xiv).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (2019).  When love goes awry (Part 1):  Applications of the duplex theory of love and its development to relationships gone bad.  In R. J. Sternberg & K. Sternberg (Eds.), The new psychology of love (2nd ed., pp. 280-299).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J., Kaur, N., & Mistur, E. J. (2019). When love goes awry (Part 2): Application of an augmented triangular theory of love to personal and situational factors in jealousy and envy. In R. J. Sternberg & K. Sternberg (Eds.), The new psychology of love (2nd ed., pp. 300-330).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J., & Sternberg, K. (Eds.) (2019).  The new psychology of love (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (in press).  Reflections on love.  In R. Hanley (Ed.), Love: A history.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (in press).  The ups and downs of love--what makes love go well, or badly?  In A. Kostic & D. Chadee (Eds.), Current research in positive psychology.  London, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sorokowski, P., Sorokowska, A., Karwowski, M., Groyecka, A., Aavik, T., …Sternberg, R. J. (2021).  Universality of the triangular theory of love: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 countries. Journal of Sex Research.

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