OLIVER C. S. TZENG is Director of the Osgood Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is also professor of psychology, director of the Graduate Applied Social Psychology program, and director of the Multidisciplinary Graduate Training Program on Child Abuse and Neglect. He is the author of Theories of Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution (Praeger, 1992), and co-author of Theories of Child Abuse and Neglect (Praeger, 1991), and co-editor of Language, Meaning, and Culture (Praeger, 1990).

• PrefaceIntroductionTheoretical FoundationsA Common Methodological Framework for Love Research in Theory Development, Measurement, and EvaluationThe Psychosemantic Paradigm and Its Love Models: A Theoretical Content Framework for Studies of LoveSummary of Octagonal Stages and Love TheorizationsMeasurement and Empirical Studies of LovePsychometric Theories, Techniques, and ConsiderationsMeasurement Scales for Eight Octagonal StagesFolk Theory of Love and Intimate RelationsCross-Scale and Cross-Construct Comparisons in Love MeasurementsDevelopment of Psychovector Love Scale and Its DifferentiabilitySummary, Discussions and ApplicationsSummary and ApplicationsReferencesIndex