Although sexual desire and romantic love are often experienced in concert, they are fundamentally distinct sub jective experiences with distinct neurobiological substrates. The basis for these distinctions is the evolutionary origin of each type of experience. The processes underlying sexual desire evolved in the context of sexual mating, whereas the processes underlying romantic love?or pair b...

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...

This essay briefly evaluates the ongoing controversy between LIU Qingping and GUO Qiyong (and their followers) about the “moral heart” of Confucianism in order to draw a comparison with Islamic ethics for mutual illumination of the two traditions (see Guo 2007: 21). Liu argues that Confucianism is basically consanguinism and, as such, it lands into an “embarrassing paradox” in its moral thinkin...

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...

Love and its transformative power have long been at the center of Islamic Sufism. For Sufi writers profane love, perceived as the love of worldly beloved, was the first step on the path toward the union with the divine. Farid al-Din ‘Attar (1145-1221) was one of the most significant authors to espouse and articulate profane love as a representation of both earthly and heavenly love. 'Attar’s us...

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...

human love, which in sufism and its critics’ expression usually appears in the phrase “virtual love”, is one of the most challenging concepts in islamic mysticism. the primacy of ruzbihan in this arena is in view of the fact that he declines to use the common phrase “virtual love” and instead he uses “human love”. he also emphasizes that experiencing of human love is inevitable for achievement ...