in some verses of the holy quran we read something about the love of god in men and the love of a number of men in god. mull sadra has known the truth of love to lie in god by defining it as rejoicing by the favorable thing and says that its application to the creatures is metaphorical just in the way that application of existence to them is. every created being is a shadow of gods hierarchical...

Mammals and birds regularly express mate preferences and make mate choices. Data on mate choice among mammals suggest that this behavioural 'attraction system' is associated with dopaminergic reward pathways in the brain. It has been proposed that intense romantic love, a human cross-cultural universal, is a developed form of this attraction system. To begin to determine the neural mechanisms a...

12.091 Medical Geology/Geochemistry: Element Report IAP 2006, 01/30/2006 Christopher Love Introduction If you have ever looked carefully at your commercial container of salt sitting in the cupboard, then you have noticed that it is iodized. Have you ever wondered what that means, or why it is mentioned? The simple answer to these questions is that a form of the element, iodine, is added to the ...

This article examines cognitive links between romantic love and creativity and between sexual desire and analytic thought based on construal level theory. It suggests that when in love, people typically focus on a long-term perspective, which should enhance holistic thinking and thereby creative thought, whereas when experiencing sexual encounters, they focus on the present and on concrete deta...

Individual differences in love attitudes and the relationship between love attitudes and other variables in Asian culture lack in-depth exploration. This study conducted cluster analysis with data regarding love attitudes obtained from 389 college students in mainland China. The result of cluster analysis based on love-attitude scales distinguished four types of students: game players, rational...

Romantic love is a motivational state associated with a desire to enter or maintain a close relationship with a specific other person. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have found activation increases in brain regions involved in the processing of reward, motivation and emotion regulation, when romantic lovers view photographs of their partners. However, not much is known abo...

In this paper, I explore the implications of Max Scheler’s concept movement love, and show that movement, for him, constitutes not only core human nature but also metaphysical presupposition upon which object religious experience could be understood. argue unique way blending intellectual knowledge essences spiritual intuition, i.e., metaphysics religion, respectively, makes his position extrem...

Feuerbach, as a humanist, set up the essence of human beings with concept category, and believed that it was object religious consciousness first emerged from its transformation determined trend different historical stages. The Christianity subordinate to God, political religion belonged beings, "love" social content in periods. In perceptual activities, is reason, will love, highest source abs...

The present study is a phonetic analysis of the emotions of love. We focus on the voicing differentiation of romantic love, parental-child love, friendship (love for a friend), and patriotism. Open quotient, spectral tilt, formant frequencies and amplitudes were extracted from a target word spoken by male and female college students as they provided the voice over for selected video clips. Resu...

Drug addiction is a complex neurological dysfunction induced by recurring drug intoxication. Strategies to prevent and treat drug addiction constitute a topic of research interest. Early-stage romantic love is characterized by some characteristics of addiction, which gradually disappear as the love relationship progresses. Therefore, comparison of the concordance and discordance between romanti...