Compassionate love for a romantic partner, love styles and subjective well-being [PDF]
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
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Myths of romantic love and self-esteem in adolescents
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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
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Brotherly Love in Twelfth Night [PDF]
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]
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]
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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