A number of authors claim that Western European modern romantic love has been ‘gamified’ by digital apps and platforms, resulting in a ludic market logic is increasingly compulsive even addictive. This paper will suggest was, fact, predicated on games, particularly games chance competition. These are seen to provide functions, including homosocial bonding, the vindication personal responsibilit...

odor recognition of partners. There was also no similar correlation between their passionate love score and identifi cation of female friends, indicating a sex-specifi c effect. Lundström and Jones-Gotman argue that this specifi c reduction in recognition of opposite-sex friends supports the defl ection theory for the psychological mechanism of romantic love. The defl ection theory proposes tha...

We explored direct, mediated, and moderated associations between adult attachment style and marital satisfaction using a community-based sample of 73 married women. Continuous ratings of secure, avoidant, and ambivalent attachment styles were related to levels of marital satisfaction. However, psychological distress mediated the association between secure attachment and marital satisfaction, an...

This study examined the mediating roles of triangular love components (intimacy, passion, and commitment) in relationship between university students’ romantic beliefs marriage attitudes. The research sample consisted 376 undergraduate students, 289 whom were female 87 male, studying at a public university. In addition to Personal Information Form, four measurement tools, namely Inönü Marriage ...

Empirical work about love has primarily considered the of one individual for another. This uses a novel method to study estimated types self and others based on passionate companionate theory, triangular theory. Two hundred fifty participants (161 females 89 males) rated self-estimates other’s estim...

In a series of books published since 1990, Anthony Giddens has explored the impact of globalization on the personal relationships and inner lives of those living in the advanced capitalist societies of the West. Of particular interest to him have been intimate, sexual relationships, which he views as tending, under the weight of globalization, away from a “traditional” model and toward a “postt...