Love And The Expansion Of Self

by Arthur Aron, Elaine N. Aron

Book by Aron, Arthur, Aron, Elaine N.

Genres: Psychology, Relationships

420 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1986

About the author

Arthur Aron received a bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy in 1967 and a master's degree in social psychology in 1968, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He earned a PhD in social psychology from the University of Toronto in 1970.

Aron's work focuses on the role, creation, and maintenance of friendship and intimacy in interpersonal relationships. He developed the self-expansion model of close relationships; it posits that one of the motivations humans have for forming close relationships is self-expansion, i.e., "expansion of the self", or personal growth and development.

Aron is married to Elaine Aron, also a psychologist.

Reviews

[Tom Sutton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting concept, the book is slow in explaining its thesis, because it takes time to extensively integrate and analyze other theories and models of love and love behaviours.