This pragmatic study examines love as a mode of communication. Our focus is on the receiver side: what makes an individual feel loved and how felt love is defined through daily interactions. Our aim is to explore everyday life scenarios in which people might experience love, and to consider people's converging and diverging judgments about which scenarios indicate felt love. We apply a cognitiv...

contemporary literary traumatheory indicates that experiencing trauma creates a fear that destroys identity. in fact, experiencing trauma creates a new identity for the victim. the representation of the trauma and the formation of the new identity for the victim are the building blocks of trauma novels. due to the nature of trauma, it seems impossible to fully describe traumatic experiences by ...

Theorists such as Farber argue that in adolescence passionate love first appears in all its intensity. Both adolescence and passion are "intense, overwhelming, passionate, consuming, exciting, and confusing". As yet, however, clinicians have been given little guidance as to how to deal with adolescents caught up in their passionate feelings. Nor has there been much research into the nature of p...

A Quick guide to Love Spots: striking male-specific regions of the eye found in some insects that are used for detecting and chasing females.

This article examines the possibility that romantic love (with intensity, engagement, and sexual interest) can exist in long-term relationships. A review of taxonomies, theory, and research suggests that romantic love, without the obsession component typical of early stage romantic love, can and does exist in long-term marriages, and is associated with marital satisfaction, well-being, and high...

Five studies investigated the links among narcissism, self-esteem, and love. Across all studies, narcissism was associated primarily with a game-playing love style. This link was found in reports of general love styles (Study 1a) and of love in ongoing romantic relationships (Studies 1b-3, 5). Narcissists' game-playing love style was the result of a need for power and autonomy (Study 2) and was...

MARRIAGE FOR THE MARRIED By Dr. Mary Macaulay. (Delisle, 12s. 6d.) Here are two books about love and loving relationships written by two worldly wise and experienced people. While one is about love outside marriage, and the other about it within the marriage-bond, both authors base their books on the belief that each person is seeking in life a satisfying loving relationship with another, and this

Abstract The anti-Catullan and anti-elegiac perspective characterizing Horace's erotic Odes builds on elements of the biography his persona found in juvenile collections, Satires Epodes , where construction poetic autobiography as a lover brings together matters didactics, ethics literary criticism.

in some verses of the holy quran we read something about the love of god in men and the love of a number of men in god. mull sadra has known the truth of love to lie in god by defining it as rejoicing by the favorable thing and says that its application to the creatures is metaphorical just in the way that application of existence to them is. every created being is a shadow of gods hierarchical...

Introduction The trauma of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is now quite palpable. More men have been killed by AIDS than the total casualties of both the world wars taken together. By the end of the 20 century, well over ten million children have been rendered orphans by this disease. The problems faced by the orphans suffering from human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) and AID...