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Reports an error in the article, "Toward a Causal Model of Love," by Abraham Tesser and Delroy Paulhus (Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 1976[Dec], Vol 34[6], 1095-1105). There are six incorrect entries in Table 2 (p. 1101). In addition, on page 1104, left-hand column, the sentence beginning on the 15th line of the paragraph headed Reproducing the Correlations reads: This value was comfortably small, .027 z units. The sentence should be changed to read: This value was comfortably small, .039 z units. Details underlying these corrections are available from the authors.(The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 1978-31808-001.) Under a proposed systems model of love, (a) thought about other and love for other have a positive causal impact on one another, (b) dating frequency and love have a positive causal impact on one another, and (c) dating has a positive impact on "reality constraints," which, in turn, (d) have a negative impact on love. Questionnaires administered 2 wks apart to a 202-member panel of college students (106 females and 96 males) served as the data collection vehicle. Temporal order of the measures was used to determine causal direction, and path analysis was used to analyze these correlational data. Results support Hypotheses (a), (b), and (d) but do not support Hypothesis (c). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
