The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

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Sternberg would argue it’s not love?if you don’t call it love and if you don’t have some desire to maintain the relationship.

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So what I’ve done is I’ve taken Sternberg’s three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I’ve listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.

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So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg’s theory you have love.

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And Sternberg argues that this is a required component of a love relationship.

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And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

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And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

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Sternberg would argue it's not love if you don't call it love and if you don't have some desire to maintain the relationship.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C