耶鲁大学公开课心理学导论英文字幕transcript09.docx

1、耶鲁大学公开课心理学导论英文字幕transcript09Introduction to Psychology: Lecture 9 TranscriptFebruary 14, 2007 backProfessor Paul Bloom: Im delighted to introduce the first guest lecturer for this Introduction to Psychology course, Dean Peter Salovey. Peter is an old friend and colleague. Many of you-I think everybo

2、dy here knows of him through his role as Dean of Yale College. Ill just, in this context of this introduction, mention two other things about him. One is prior to being dean and in fact, still as a dean, hes an active scientist and in particular, a social psychologist actively involved in studying h

3、ealth psychology, the proper use of psychological methods to frame health messages, and also is the founder and developer of the idea of emotional intelligence, an idea hes done a huge amount of research on. Secondly, Peter is or was an active and extremely well-known teacher at Yale College. He tau

4、ght at one point, the largest course ever in Yale College 鈥 a course on Psychology in Law which broke every record ever had here. And before that, during that, and after that, he was a legendary Introduction to Psychology teacher. And I think-and he had some reason for why he was so legendary with h

5、is lecture today on the topic of love.applauseDean Peter Salovey: Thanks very much. Okay. Thank you very much, Professor Bloom. It really is a pleasure to come and lecture to you today on Valentines Day on the topic of love. My main area of research is human emotion. And love is an emotion. Its not

6、one that I study personally, at least not in the lab, and-but it is fun to talk about. And it is a topic that lends itself to many social psychological phenomena. Its also great to be able to come in and guest lecture. One of the things I very much miss since serving as dean is the opportunity to te

7、ach Psychology 110. And although I love being dean, I do miss teaching Introductory Psychology, the feeling of exposing people to ideas that maybe you hadnt heard before.Well, I suspect some of the ideas in this talk youll have not heard before and for a variety of reasons. A couple of the things yo

8、ull notice is that some of the experiments Ill talk about today are not the kinds of experiments that can be done anymore. Theyre not considered ethically acceptable but they were done in the 鈥50s and 鈥60s and early 鈥70s when ethical standards were different and so we can teach them. We just cant gi

9、ve you the same experiences that some of the college students that well talk about today in these studies had.The other thing I will mention is that there is a certain androcentric and heterosexual quality to much of the social psychological research on romantic love. Youll see that in the experimen

10、ts. Usually, the participants are men and usually the targets are women in these experiments. Im not endorsing this as the only way to study love. It just happens to be the way these experiments were done and so I mention this caution right from the beginning. Well have to think about-One of the thi

11、ngs you should think about is do you think these experiments generalized to other kinds of dyadic relationships. And thats a question that I think you can ask throughout this lecture.Okay. So lets get started. And to start things off I think what we need to do is consider a definition. Im going to d

12、efine what love is but then most of the experiments Im going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love-who finds each other of romantic interest that might then develop into a love relationship. But lets start with a definition of love. And Im going to pick a definition from a fo

13、rmer colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly thirty years or so. And he has a theory of love that argues that its made up of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitmen

14、t. And these are relatively straightforward. He argued that you dont have love if you dont have all three of these elements.Intimacy is the feeling of closeness, of connectedness with someone, of bonding. Operationally, you could think of intimacy as you share secrets, you share information with thi

15、s person that you dont share with anybody else. Okay. Thats really what intimacy is, the bond that comes from sharing information that isnt shared with other-with many other people. Second element is passion. Passion is what you think it is. Passion is the-we would say the drive that leads to romanc

16、e. You can think of it as physical attraction or sex. And Sternberg argues that this is a required component of a love relationship. It is not, however, a required component of taking a shower in Calhoun College. a Yale dormitory laughterThe third element of love in Sternbergs theory is what he calls decision or commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such, and a commitm