2025/2026
Romantic Partners - first occurs in high school
Robert Sternberg: three distinct aspects of love - PASSION: intense physical emotional
onslaught by excitement
INTIMACY: knowing someone well
COMMITMENT: grows gradually through decisions together
consummate love - intimacy, passion, commitment
infatuated love - passion only
empty love - commitment only
romantic love - intimacy and passion only
fatuous love - passion and commitment only
massification - higher learning institutions and providing encouragement for college
enrollment might benefit everyone
(the US no longer leads the world in % of college grads)
reactions to death - cultural prisms, historical changes, regional variations, age of dying
changes in death - death occurs later, dying takes longer, often occurs in hospitals,
causes have changed
Children's understanding of death - age 4: aware of death; don't understand that its final
6-10: start to understand the biological basis of what it means to be alive
Elizabeth Kubler Ross & stages of death/dying - 1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining: ill be good if I can live
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
palliative care - not to treat the illness but to provide support (hospice)
double effect - ethical situation in which an action has both a positive effect, which is
intended, and a negative effect, which is foreseen but not intended; relieving pain and
suppressing respiration
deviancy training - teaching to rebel