A Cross-Cultural Study That Systematically Compared Romantic Love in Many

question 23

Multiple Choice

A cross-cultural study that systematically compared romantic love in many cultures found

• A) that while people everywhere know what love is, they experience it differently.
• B) a scholarly bias throughout the social sciences that views romantic love as a luxury in human life, especially in academia.
• C) a rise in love matches over arranged marriages in industrialized societies, but the opposite trend in nonindustrialized societies.
• D) evolutionary evidence for romantic love in all the societies surveyed.
• E) evidence that romantic love may be a universal, although romantic love and marriage do not necessarily go together.

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