How love and lust change people's perception of relationship partners

Because love is related to thoughts in the distant future and lust triggers thoughts related to the present based oil construal level theory, we propose a link between love and a global processing style as well as a link between lust and a local processing style These processing Styles Should further expand to partnership evaluations, partially explaining halo phenomena. In Study 1. college Students and senior participants were pinned by either Imagining a walk with a person they were in love with, or a one-night stand In Study 2, love and lust were primed Subliminally In all studies, love priming enhanced global, holistic processing and halos. whereas lust priming enhanced local. detail oriented processing and reduced halos Moreover. in Study 1. temporal distance mediated the effects Implications for research of moods oil processing styles, partner perception, and the distinction between love and lust are discussed (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved