Construction of a romantic love attitude scale

Attitude: Scale Construction

NGF and romantic love.

Romantic love is the catalyst behind the spread of the human life. The neurobiology of love embraces the hypothesis that what we call "romantic attachment" or "romantic love" may be at least in part the expression of biological factors. A corollary of this hypothesis states that it is possible to learn much about the nature of human love by studying the molecules involved in the expression of s...

TWO CONCEPTS OF ROMANTIC LOVE 1 Do People Distinguish Between Romantic Love Itself And A Good Romantic Relationship?

New research procedures that provided a direct test of lay concepts of romantic love supported the following conclusions: Laypersons use two different concepts when making judgments about love relationships: (a) an essentialist concept having to do with the basic question of whether person A loves person B, and (b) a prototypical concept having to do with what would optimally be present in a go...

A Cultural Perspective on Romantic Love

The article presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, psychological, and sociological review of cultural perspectives on love: how culture affects our experience and expression of love. The evidence suggests that love is a universal emotion experienced by a majority of people, in various historical eras, and in all the world’s cultures, but manifests itself in different ways because c...

The neural basis of romantic love.

The neural correlates of many emotional states have been studied, most recently through the technique of fMRI. However, nothing is known about the neural substrates involved in evoking one of the most overwhelming of all affective states, that of romantic love, about which we report here. The activity in the brains of 17 subjects who were deeply in love was scanned using fMRI, while they viewed...