Twelve Songs (Loving Hearts)

Open hearts build lives: positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources.

B. L. Fredrickson's (1998, 2001) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions asserts that people's daily experiences of positive emotions compound over time to build a variety of consequential personal resources. The authors tested this build hypothesis in a field experiment with working adults (n = 139), half of whom were randomly-assigned to begin a practice of loving-kindness meditation. R...

DNA or loving care?

to five contestants might be involved in child-custody conflicts. As cases of ART in which third parties are involved become more common, the issue of what constitutes a parent is now, perhaps more than ever, highly contested. There is no consensus on what parents are or what they should be. At the heart of the issue are at least two important questions. First, what is the relative importance a...

The ethics of loving care.

Sustaining metal-loving plants in mining regions.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 337 7 SEPTEMBER 2012 1141 COVER Artist’s conception of the complex network of relationships between disease and the human genome. Hundreds of diseases and traits (represented by colored dots) have been mapped to specifi c chromosomal positions in the genome. Most disease-associated genetic variants fall outside of protein-coding genes, instead affecting the genome...

Justice Alito’s Dissent in Loving v. Virginia

In 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down miscegenation statutes, which criminalized interracial marriage, as unconstitutional. In 2013, the Court in United States v. Windsor invalidated Section 3 of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), which precluded federal agencies from recognizing marriages between same-sex couples even if the marriages were ...