Definition
B-love, also known as being love, is the process of loving and caring in an unselfish way about other (especially a partner) just for his/her being or essence. It is a rare type of love which is manifested in and by self-actualized people (i.e., last stage of Maslow’s needs where the basic necessities have been sated and the motivation occurs for personal growth). It is an end experience rather than a means experience, i.e., the other is not a vehicle to obtain love but the purpose of the experience itself.
Introduction
When Maslow created his theory of motivation, moving away from rewards and unconscious desires, by explaining how people have the urgency to satiate certain needs, he never pictured himself talking about love (as he mentioned in his book Motivation and Personalityin 1954). But he came across with certain behaviors in self-actualized individuals (i.e., individuals who have...
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Lopez Portillo, B. (2017). B-Love. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1456-1
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