These findings appear in the March issue of Review of General Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.

这些研究结果刊登在美国心理学会出版的《普通心理学评论》三月号上。

Acevedo and co-researcher Arthur Aron, PhD, reviewed 25 studies with 6,070 individuals in short- and long-term relationships to find out whether romantic love is associated with more satisfaction. To determine this, they classified the relationships in each of the studies as romantic, passionate (romantic with obsession) or friendship-like love and categorized them as long- or short-term.

Acevedo和研究合作者Arthur Aron博士回顾了以往的25项研究（它们的研究对象总共包括6070个处于短期或长期关系中的人），以检验浪漫爱情是否与更高的满意度相联系。为了证实这一点，他们把每项研究中的爱情关系归类为浪漫的、激情的（浪漫加上强迫成分）和友谊式的，再分为长期和短期关系两类。

The researchers looked at 17 short-term relationship studies, which included 18- to 23-year-old college students who were single, dating or married, with the average relationship lasting less than four years. They also looked at 10 long-term relationship studies comprising middle-aged couples who were typically married 10 years or more. Two of the studies included both long- and short-term relationships in which it was possible to distinguish the two samples.

研究者查看了17个对于短期关系的研究，其对象包括18-23岁的单身、恋爱中或已婚的大学生，他们爱情关系的平均持续时间在四年以下。还有10个对于长期关系的研究，其对象包括结婚10年或更久的中年夫妇。其中两个研究同时包括了短期和长期关系，这两组样本是区分开来的。