The importance of romantic love to people with learning disabilities

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...

Love and emotional well-being in people with intellectual disabilities.

Love has been a recurrent topic throughout history, and especially, literature. Moreover, there is generalized agreement about its relevance for health emotional well-being, and quality of life. This study was carried out with a sample of 376 persons with ID. The goals of the work were to analyze a theoretical model of love in people with intellectual disabilities by means of the methodology of...

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...

Working with people with learning disabilities.

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...