This pragmatic study examines love as a mode of communication. Our focus is on the receiver side: what makes an individual feel loved and how felt love is defined through daily interactions. Our aim is to explore everyday life scenarios in which people might experience love, and to consider people's converging and diverging judgments about which scenarios indicate felt love. We apply a cognitiv...

Theorists such as Farber argue that in adolescence passionate love first appears in all its intensity. Both adolescence and passion are "intense, overwhelming, passionate, consuming, exciting, and confusing". As yet, however, clinicians have been given little guidance as to how to deal with adolescents caught up in their passionate feelings. Nor has there been much research into the nature of p...

have provoked many reactions and the traditional revenge/fear action. The casual, quick acceptance of this response globally, instead of outrage over more senseless carnage, is symptomatic, in medical jargon, of a massive malignant cancer in human society. Also symptomatic is that, on the same day, over 30 000 children died of starvation and there was no noise heard. As I explore the health of ...

A Quick guide to Love Spots: striking male-specific regions of the eye found in some insects that are used for detecting and chasing females.

This article examines the possibility that romantic love (with intensity, engagement, and sexual interest) can exist in long-term relationships. A review of taxonomies, theory, and research suggests that romantic love, without the obsession component typical of early stage romantic love, can and does exist in long-term marriages, and is associated with marital satisfaction, well-being, and high...

Five studies investigated the links among narcissism, self-esteem, and love. Across all studies, narcissism was associated primarily with a game-playing love style. This link was found in reports of general love styles (Study 1a) and of love in ongoing romantic relationships (Studies 1b-3, 5). Narcissists' game-playing love style was the result of a need for power and autonomy (Study 2) and was...

MARRIAGE FOR THE MARRIED By Dr. Mary Macaulay. (Delisle, 12s. 6d.) Here are two books about love and loving relationships written by two worldly wise and experienced people. While one is about love outside marriage, and the other about it within the marriage-bond, both authors base their books on the belief that each person is seeking in life a satisfying loving relationship with another, and this

Abstract The anti-Catullan and anti-elegiac perspective characterizing Horace's erotic Odes builds on elements of the biography his persona found in juvenile collections, Satires Epodes , where construction poetic autobiography as a lover brings together matters didactics, ethics literary criticism.

Abstract: Irony can happen anywhere, especially when it comes to love. Love be seen as a human perception in looking at life and the world. has many forms. The ideal form of partner love is Companionate Love. Based on opinion Sternberg (1998), determine required three components, namely, intimacy, passion, commitment. After components are properly fulfilled, an formed. This article uses descrip...