P&O

 

 

Love at first sight is something that has puzzled scientists and lovers a like for many years.  “Inmainstream twentiet-century culture the phenomenon of love at first sight…has resided in the relm of what we might call feminine epistemology”(Matthews).  It is a phenomenon that can be described as essentially one making visual contact with another and having an instant feel of not only attraction but also love. This has never been officially describe but there are many scientific studies done on the mental and physical states that one must be in to achieve feelings of this nature. My research is not only those mental and physical states but also the effects of homosexuality and heterosexuality on those intense feelings that one gets when he or she feels like they have experienced a love at first sight type of reaction.  Homosexuality in this way has never been explored before butit has been studied that adolescents that are homosexual love in different ways. “adolescents who experience feelings of same-sex  attraction (SSA) differ from those without such feelings in the quality of relationships with parents, peers, and class mentors and in psychosocial functioning (health status and school performance)”(Bos).   I plan to conduct interviews as well as use the already conducted research to come up with weather or not there is a difference or greater rate of homosexual or heterosexual individuals experiencing love at first sight. I plan to conduct these interviews on campus at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and also within the communities in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Collegeville, Pennsylvania to get a vast majority of age ranges as well as some societal differences between the two locations. I hope to provide a useful conclusion to help others find out weather or not their love is true and weather or not love at first sight exists or exists for those individuals. This research will benefit me in that my major is family and consumer science and in a major part of what I teach will be relationships and their effects and also how to be in them and what makes them strong. This element is important because I am sure that I will have students that ask me questions about these phenomena and I would like to be able to give first hand advice to them and to others. I feel as though heterosexual couples will be more apt to fall in love at first sight because they tend to be the more judgmental of the two groups. “partners who fell in love at first sight, relative to partners who got involved more gradually, entered into intimate relationships more shortly after they met, would have mates with less similar personalities, especially with regard to levels of extraversion, emotional stability and autonomy, and would report relatively low levels of relationship quality”(Barelds).  Homosexual couples tend to rely more on an emotional connection than a strong physical one. My research will prove my prediction either right or wrong but through the interviews that I conduct and the primary research I should be able to come to and adequate conclusion. 

Notes

Barelds , Dick. “Love at first sight or friends first? Ties among partner personality trait similarity, relationship onset, relationship quality, and love.” University of Groningen 24.4 (2007): 479-496 . Web. 14 Feb 2010. http://spr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/4/479.

Matthews, Christopher. “Love at First Sight: The Velocity of Victorian Heterosexuality .” Victorian Studies 46.3 (2004): n. pag. Web. 17 Feb 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3829668?&Search=yes&term=love&term=sight&term=first&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dlove%2Bat%2Bfirst%2Bsight%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3Dlove%2Bat%2Ba%2Bglance%26hp%3D25%26so%3Drel%26wc%3Don&item=14&ttl=71576&returnArticleService=showArticle.

Bos, Henry, Theo sandfort, Eddy Bruyn, and Esther Hakvoort. “Same-Sex Attraction, Social Relationships, Psychosocial Functioning, and.” Developmental Psychology 44.1 (2008): 59–68. Web. 20 Feb 2010. http://dare.uva.nl/document/114179.

  

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The article I read gave seven easy and quick steps to writing a reasearch proposal.  The first was to write an interesting title to grab the readers attention. The second was to form and abstract stating the basis of the paper and write it in 300 words or less.  This includes the methods and predicted findings in the reasearch conducted.  The third step is to write and introduction.  In the introduction one should describe the methods and key points in the reasearch.  The fourth step is the resource review, in this section the author should describe the sources they used as well as give credit to those who have done similar reasearch.  The fifth step is the explaination of the reasearch methods that were conducted.  The sixth step is to predict the results of the study and create the hypothesis.  The seventh and final step is is to describe the impact of the research conducted. “How to Write a Reasearch Paper.” <em>ehow.com</em>. Gregory Boudewijn , Web. 31 Jan 2010. <a href=”http://www.ehow.com/how_2002069_write-research-proposal.html”>http://www.ehow.com/how_2002069_write-research-proposal.html</a>. proposal <div><span style=”text-decoration:underline;”>Lust, Longing, or Love at First Sight</span></div> <span style=”text-decoration:underline;”> <div><span style=”font-size:x-small;”> 

1. Abstract

A. blog entry number 4 and proposal 

2. Introduction

A. Proposal and primary conclusions 

III. Body 

1. Mental state of Love at first sight 

1.  
   1. a. What mental state does an individual need to be in?
   2. b. Why is that state essential?

1.  
   1. What other emotions occur in that state?

2. Physical state of love at first sight 

1.  
   1. What physical state does an individual need to be in?
   2. Why is that state essential?
   3. What other kinds of actions occur in that physical state?

3. Love at first sight in heterosexual couples 

1.  
   1. Interviews with couples
   2. Scientific evidence
   3. Conclusion of section/ ratios

4. Love at first sight in homosexual couples 

1.  
   1. Interviews with couples
   2. Scientific evidence
   3. Conclusion of section/ ratios

IV. Conclusion