Bob’s work on love has been published in many of the most prestigious journals in the field of psychology, such as Psychological Review, Psychological Bulletin, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and by many of the most prestigious scholarly and trade book publishers, such as Yale University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Basic Books, and Bantam Publishers. Here is a selected bibliography of Sternberg’s work on love and related topics:
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. (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. (1988). What’s love got to do with it? Omni, 10, p. 27.
Sternberg, R. J., & Barnes, M. (1988). An introduction to the psychology of love. In R. J. Sternberg & M. Barnes (Eds.), The psychology of love (pp. 3–10). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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. (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). 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. (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., 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). 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.
Sorokowski, P., Sorokowska, A., Karwowski, M., Groyecka, A., Aavik, T., …Sternberg, R. J. (2020). Universality of the triangular theory of love: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 countries. Journal of Sex Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2020.1787318
Sternberg, R. J. (2021). The ups and downs of love--what makes love go well, or badly? In A. Kostic & D. Chadee (Eds.), Current research in positive psychology (pp. 177-192). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Sternberg, R. J. (2022). The role of ideals in intimate relationships. In A. Pismenny & B. Borgaard (Eds.), The moral psychology of love (pp. 89-106). New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Sternberg, R. J. (in press). Reflections on love. In R. Hanley (Ed.), Love: A history. New York: Oxford University Press.