NeuroscieNtists are learNiNg how pure sexual desire coNtributes to lastiNg relatioNships

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  • John T. Cacioppo
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The bifurcated treatment of love and lust dates to antiquity. The study of love as an academic subject is nearly a century old, with the sentiment covered in introductory textbooks of social psychology. Psychologists, primatologists, neuroanatomists and neurophysiologists came to see love—defined as an intense and complex feeling of deep affection—as responsible for long-term coupling and close relationLust for Life

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تاریخ انتشار 2013