The Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) shows that people can experience a harmonious or an obsessive passion toward an activity. Mageau and Vallerand (2007; Mageau et al., 2009) have argued that self-related processes, such as contingencies of self-worth, are central in the distinction between the two types of passion. Specifically, it was proposed that people with an obsessive...

OBJECTIVES Drug addicts are more and more stigmatized in our society. Recent data show a connection between substance abuse and other behaviors considered normal, such as passionate love. Adolescence is characterized by a biopsychosocial, cognitive and neurodevelopmental immaturity. This article aims to understand if these subjects are more likely to develop addictions to certain products or ad...

Background: Passionate love involves physiological, emotional, and cognitive features that greatly changes behavior. This phenomenon seems universal or near universal. Even other animal species choose partners. An intense state of passionate love is associated with activity in dopamine pathways of the brain ‘reward system’, and recently has been regarded as a ‘natural addiction’. Instruments or...

IKEA is a fast-growing multinational home furnishings company started in 1943 Sweden. Using comparative analysis of the brand Malaysia and China, this research intends to analyze relationship between attitude, experience, love, word mouth. The data collected from China (N=100) revealed that love impact This paper contributes consumer-brand relationships literature by exploring role retail brand...

With four waves of women’s liberation movements in the twentieth century, relationship between mothers and daughters has come under increasing, frequent, intense, passionate examination. Scholars East West have examined this bond, giving it a universal appeal. Among voices that to create speech meaning are. Fouad (1964), Egyptian writer, her book Ila Ibnaty (To My Daughter) Rich’s 1976 classic ...

The purpose of the book is marred by inaccuracies and 'V oversimplified case snippets, but it constitutes a serious and Passionate plea for a better understanding of the type of boy with whom it is concerned. R. S. Addis.

Even though research on dating infidelity has been conducted for years, it still contends with limitations, including over reliance on heterosexual college student samples and a lack of longitudinal research on patterns and longterm effects of infidelity. Still, the limited research reveals that college students use very broad criteria for defining dating infidelity. Effectively, almost any for...

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...

Using [(11)C]raclopride, a dopamine D2/D3 receptor antagonist, we undertook a positron emission tomography (PET) study to investigate the involvement of the dopaminergic neurotransmitter system when subjects viewed the pictures of partners to whom they were romantically attached. Ten subjects viewed pictures of their romantic partners and, as a control, of friends of the same sex for whom they ...

The video game industry is expanding rapidly and video games have become an important part of our society. However, it is still unclear if the increasing amount of time spent on playing video games causes positive or negative consequences. This research-in-progress paper proposes a model, rooted in the Dualistic Model of Passion, to explain why video games can create addiction or non-pathologic...