Aron, E. N., & Aron, A. (1996). Love and expansion of the self: The state of the model. Personal relationships, 3(1), 45-58.
The self‐expansion model of love developed out of a confluence of research on attraction and arousal, Eastern psychology, motivation theory, and the social psychology of personal relationships. The model treats love (the desire for a relationship with a particular other) as arising from a desire to expand the self by including that other in the self, as well as by associating expansion with that particular ...