Introduction. – Passion as a concept but also as a way of life seems to generate an ever-growing interest among researchers and even employers. The Dualistic model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) has suggested that passion could take two distinct forms: harmonious or obsessive passion. However, the debate still remains open on the factors (contextual or dispositional) that are likely to inf...

Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018) documents the complex, unstable, but, at same time, passionate relationship between two young and intelligent individuals, Marianne Sheridan Connell Waldron, from 2011 to 2015. While their stormy goes through various separations reattachments, follows a paradoxical quest deal with her psychological wounds stemming family violence abuse in childhood; she choos...

Two decades ago, experimental social psychologists became interested in the emotion of passionate love, "the desire for union with another." Recently, sex researchers have begun to focus on sexual desire, "the desire for sexual union with another," or the loss thereof. In this paper we review what experimental social psychologists have learned about the nature of passionate love in the last two...