Love and Enjoy Science

The Science of Love

Oxytocin, also known as ‘‘love hormone,’’ is a mammalian neuropeptide acting primarily in the brain. The neuromodulatory effects of oxytocin play critical roles in a wide range of social, parental, and stress-related behaviors. More recently, deficiencies in oxytocin levels and mutations of the oxytocin receptor have also been associatedwith the etiology of autism. Recent studies highlighted in...

Enrico Drioli and His Life Time Love Affair with Membrane Science

Love and God and Robots: The Science Behind the Science Fiction Prototype "Machinery of LoveGrace"

This paper is an introduction to the short story and science fiction prototype The Machinery of Love and Grace. We cover a brief overview of the goals of science fiction prototyping as well as an example for how both Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud used a very similar process to achieve greatness in their work. Finally we look into the specific science behind the story The Machinery of Love a...

Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...

Do Workers Enjoy Procedural Utility ?

People are likely to obtain utility not only from actual outcomes, but also from the conditions which lead to these outcomes. This paper empirically tests the notion of procedural utility for the context of work relationships. Using a large survey among British workers, we find substantial procedural effects on the utility workers derive from their pay. Utility from pay is not only strongly inf...