Article Critique on a Triangular Theory of Love

Lexther Jhon D. Penaranda

STEM 12-A

Article Critique

The article entitled “A Triangular Theory of Love” by Robert J. Sternberg which he presented three component of love which is intimacy, passion and decision/commitment.

In the article the author present three component of love and expand, analyze through empirical findings in the stud, also compare and contrast to the other theories like the Spearmanian Theory and many more. The theory gives a comprehensive guide for understanding different types of love that connect to close relationship. Also it attempts to explain and characterize a variety of love related phenomena and analyze in three different ways which is intimacy which explain the closeness and etc., next is passion which encompasses the lead to romance, and finally the decision/commitment which encompasses that one love another or the long-term relationship. The article gives idea in understanding the nature of love

The author openly show his statement by making some table for the properties of the component of love also comparing and contrast to other expert psychology theory, also some model of love and the author use the triangle as a symbol for the geometry of love, like the amount of love: area of the triangle, balance of love: shape of the triangle and many more. Also through empirical phenomena by some findings and also in every part or subtitle topic he made there is always a summary or conclusion to the presented idea clearly understand the topic presented. The author used observations, psychologically explain, also historical accounts or records like comparing to the other old theory and model, also through empirical data that completely showed in every assumptions, he used and leaving no doubt about his idea and explanations because he give example and well-presented idea by the used of figures and tables. Even though the article didn’t contribute any to my field as a STEM student but, it help me a lot when it comes to love, when I will enter to a relationship that I might be used to label my own and my love to the person I loved, on what kind of love do I have, because the author also presented some kind of love which connected to the three components of love, and by the used of table to label it if the kind of love are present to the three component of love by using the negative sign as not present and the positive sign as present also by rating form low to high.