Can You Love More Than One Person at the Same Time? A Research Report

Authors

  • William Jankowiak University of Nevada
  • Helen Gerth University of Nevada

Keywords:

dual love, sex differences, U.S. society, polyamour

Abstract

The contemporary U.S. American model of love is that
it is essentially a dyadic bond between two and only two indi
viduals. Out of this bond arises feelings of eroticism, passion, and
companionship which somehow merge together to form a unified
conceptual whole. Co-existing with this ideal is an alternative
model that survives in the popular medium of films that holds
out the possibility of simultaneously loving two people at the
same time. Our study was designed to explore how individuals
caught in a concurrent love bond experience and managed their
relationship(s). Implications of our findings are discussed below.

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Published

2022-03-16

How to Cite

Jankowiak, W., & Gerth, H. (2022). Can You Love More Than One Person at the Same Time? A Research Report. Anthropologica, 54(1), 95–105. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/935

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2012): Anthropology in the Era of New Information and Communication Technologies: New Explorations

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2012 William Jankowiak & Helen Gerth

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