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Compassionate love for a romantic partner, love styles and subjective well-being [PDF]

open access: yesInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 2012
Recently a compassionate love scale was developed to assess compassionate love or altruistic love for different targets (e.g., romantic partner, close others and all the humanity; Sprecher & Fehr, 2005).
Félix Neto
doaj  

Myths of romantic love and self-esteem in adolescents

open access: yesINFAD, 2019
The myths of romantic love are socially constructed upon irrational beliefs about the nature of love, which stipulates what “true love” is, which the desirable characteristics are in a future partner, the importance of love, future expectations and the ...
M. Bisquert-Bover   +4 more
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"But would not the same love be a great deal safer in a castle?" : love and money in the novels of Thomas Love Peacock : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Literature at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This thesis examines the relationship between romantic love and wealth in the novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Nineteenth-century England was a time of great social mobility as well as severe economic hardship, showing the effects of capitalism to have ...
Haakman, Cynthia Elizabeth
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Junkie love : romance and addiction on the big screen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article investigates the filmic construction of two disparate but intertwining cultural practices: those engaging in the life-affirming rituals of romantic love and those performing the potentially self-destructive rituals of hard drug consumption ...
Aronofsky D.   +43 more
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Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article contributes to the on-going study of modern affective life by exploring the ways in which love was understood, invoked, and deployed within heterosexual courtships.
Langhamer, Claire
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Romantic Love and Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in Etnofoor 10:1-12. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25758107 (login required to access content).
Lindholm, Charles
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Love-related changes in the brain: A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Romantic love is a motivational state associated with a desire to enter or maintain a close relationship with a specific other person. Studies with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have found activation increases in brain regions involved in ...
Hongwen eSong   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brotherly Love in Twelfth Night [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night draws an intriguing contrast between brotherly love and romantic love. Through the relationships of Sebastian-Antonio and Viola-Orsino, the playwright illustrates these two types of love in the lives these characters, showing ...
Heist, Sara
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Predictors of Love Attitudes: The contribution of cultural orientation, gender attachment style, relationship length and age in participants from the UK and Hong Kong [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this research was to explore whether a model including psychological predictors at the individual, interpersonal and cultural level could predict romantic attitudes.
Cho   +6 more
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"I Saw You": searching for lost love via practices of reading, writing and responding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
How do emotions move and how do emotions move us? How are feelings and recognitions distributed socio-materially? Based on a multi-site ethnographic study of a romantic correspondance system, this article explores the themes of love, privacy, identity ...
Laurier, E., Whyte, A.
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