Romantic relationship, a widespread feature of human society, is one of the most influential factors in daily life. Although stimuli related to romantic love or being in a romantic relationship commonly result in enhancement of activation or functional connectivity of the reward system, including the striatum, the structure underlying romantic relationship-related regions remain unclear. Becaus...

Gnostic prose works cover a wide range of subjects, contents, styles, structures, languages, and manners of expression. They might, therefore, be all categorized under one single literary genre. Applying the general term "gnostic prose works" to these oeuvres hinders our understanding of their true nature. Despite that many gnostic prose works belong to Gnosticism, they have special characteris...

This study investigates memorable messages that daughters report hearing from their mothers about romantic relationships to examine the development of meaning in the content of parent-child communication and the ways in which these messages may affect and reflect adult daughters’ relational worldviews. Findings from a study involving 149 adult daughters revealed 4 supra-categories of memorable ...

People often say that romantic love should be unconditional, and they want to last forever. These claims desires are presumably linked: part of the reason it would good for unconditional is assumed such love, being detached from changing conditions, This article argues there are, indeed, kinds permanent worth wanting, but also not, attempts clarify just what valuable about these love.

This open-label trial assessed the clinical efficacy of L-5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), a natural serotonin precursor, in nondepressed young subjects with high levels of romantic stress. Since both neurotrophins and serotonin have been linked to human romantic attachment, we sought to investigate the changes in serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels and platelet serotonin content ...

Following previous work, this paper introduces a new dynamical model involving two differential equations describing the time variation of behavior displayed by a couple in a romantic relationship. This model is different from previous ones because it uses complex variables. Since complex variables have both magnitude and phase, they are better able to represent love and can represent more comp...