Hirschi argued that delinquent youth tend to form relatively "cold and brittle" relationships with peers, depicting these youths as deficient in their attachments to others. The current analysis explores connections between delinquency and the character of adolescent romantic ties, drawing primarily on the first wave of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study, and focusing on 957 teens with d...

The purpose of the study was to examine the triangular theory of love in China and the United States. It was predicted that intimacy, passion, and commitment would increase in both cultures as the relationship becomes more serious. It was also predicted that intimacy and passion would be higher in romantic relationships in the US than in China, and that commitment would be higher in China than ...

25s. in an age when people are being continually assaulted by all the media with contradictions and exaggerations about romantic love, and sexual techniques, J. H. Wallis' book, 'Thinking about love', brings simplicity, sanity and a basic folk wisdom which is much needed. He has contrived to write of basic personal relationship without falling back on the technical cliches which normally befog ...

BACKGROUND Brain activity was studied in grief following frustrated love compared to romantic love, and it was hypothesized that unhappy lovers compared to happy lovers would have decreased brain activity in regions specific to emotional and reward circuits, such as frontal brain areas, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), bilateral insula or posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). METHODS Twelve volun...

there are two historical paradigms in iranian family law: love law and libido law. understanding the two approaches is possible by thinking on the four categories of love: 1. libido: the passion of life and manifestation of sexual drive. 2.eros: the romantic love and the genuine material of poem and literature. 3.philia: the mere love purified from libido. 4. agape: the spiritual love in mystic...

Taking into account notable recent neuroimaging researches, it is possible to infer some first simple remarks which would suggest possible neurological bases to that fundamental psychoanalytic assumption which is the Freudian Œdipus complex. The following first very brief sketch has been just thought to simply highlight this fact. This very brief note is concerned with remarkable recent neurolo...