Contents

1 Introduction to the Psychology of Love and Hate in Intimate

Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Katherine Aumer

Part I Love
2 Unweaving the Rainbow of Human Sexuality: A Review of
One-Night Stands, Serious Romantic Relationships, and the
Relationship Space in Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Peter K. Jonason and Rhonda N. Balzarini
3 The Importance and Meaning of Sexual Fantasies in Intimate
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ali Ziegler and Terri D. Conley
4 The Science of Female Orgasms: Pleasing Female Partners in
Casual and Long-Term Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Jes L. Matsick, Terri D. Conley and Amy C. Moors
5 Passionate Love: Inspired by Angels or Demons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Elaine Hatfield, Cyrille Feybesse, Victoria Narine
and Richard L. Rapson

Part II Hate
6 Your Pain, My Gain: The Interpersonal Context of Sadism . . . . . . 85
Christopher T. Burris and Rebecca Leitch
7 Hate: Theory and Implications for Intimate Relationships . . . . . . . 105
John K. Rempel and Siobhan Sutherland
8 Hate in Intimate Relationships as a Self-protective Emotion. . . . . . 131
Katherine Aumer and Anne Cathrine Krebs Bahn

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9 We Hate What We Fear: Interpersonal Hate from a Clinical

Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Jerrold Lee Shapiro

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
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