包办婚姻根本就没有爱情？心理学家、《科学美国人·心理》杂志的特约编辑罗伯特·爱泼斯坦可不这么认为。以下是他的看法：“印度甚至有过这么一篇研究论文，利用名曰‘鲁宾爱情量表’的美式爱情标准来对比包办婚姻（印度特色）和自由婚姻的爱情指数。研究人员发现，自由婚姻一开始浓情似火，但会随着时间降温——所有研究得出的结果都是这样的。至于包办婚姻……”
Arranged Marriages Can Be Real Love Connection
Think arranged marriages are loveless? Not so, says psychologist Robert Epstein, a contributing editor for Scientific American MIND magazine. He spoke March 10 at the 92nd Street Y’s Tribeca site in New York City: “And there’s even a study published in India [Usha Gupta and Pushpa Singh of the University of Rajasthan, 1982] but using an American love scale, called the Rubin Love Scale, that compared love in love marriages in India, because they have those, too, to love in arranged marriages. And in this particular study, love in the love marriages starts out very high. And then over time it decreases. That’s what all of our studies show. And in the arranged marriages...”