The choice to enter and leave a romantic relationship can be framed as a decision-making problem based on expected utility of the partnership over time, akin to a forager deciding whether to stay in a particular patch based on the amount of resources it provides. We examined the temporal trajectory of three traits that may correspond to resources in romantic relationships—trust, love, and satis...

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial evolutionary importance. Yet almost nothing is known about their neural correlates in the human. We therefore used fMRI to measure brain activity in mothers while they viewed pictures of their own and of acquainted chi...

A mathematical model is proposed for interpreting the love story between Elizabeth and Darcy portrayed by Jane Austen in the popular novel Pride and Prejudice. The analysis shows that the story is characterized by a sudden explosion of sentimental involvements, revealed by the existence of a saddle-node bifurcation in the model. The paper is interesting not only because it deals for the first t...

Although love of nature as a source inspiration is one the primary themes in Romantic period, romantic love, which conveys passion, pleasure, or pain often appears common theme poetry. poetry becomes fertile space where some poets explore powerful, intense, and irresistible emotion that gives melancholy rather than pleasure happiness. I argue uneasy relationship between lovers beloveds poetry, ...

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in modern societies which also including student populations. Etiology of depression is naturally very complicated matter. Some of the effective parameters that have recently gained scholars’ attention are personality traits including romantic relationships that can affect depression. The purpose of this study was to evaluate relations...

Data from a representative sample of the Spanish population (1,949 participants between ages 18 and 65) were analyzed to examine the strength of the principal romantic myths and the link between sex, love, and marriage in Spain. A survey was made up and was administered by interviewers. The results show the strength of these myths and the relationship between the three above-mentioned variables...

Head over heels in love and fiercely, nakedly desired Beautiful, young, gifted, admired A life seething with romantic love Having the world’s absolutely poshest job tastefully handled alongside the sweetest, cutest kids Tender mother Devoted lover Married to a prince on a white steed Faithful in friendship Popular, sought-after, indispensable to others Finances in order Slim and slender into ol...

Romantic beliefs are associated to attachment anxiety, acceptability of abusive relationships and justification violent behavior. Adolescence is a crucial stage for the consolidation identity. The aim this study analyze myths romantic love examine gender differences among 448 Spanish early-middle adolescents (M = 12.92; SD 0.85) that were attending first second year secondary education. Myths, ...

Romantic rejection causes a profound sense of loss and negative affect. It 25 can induce clinical depression and in extreme cases lead to suicide and/or homicide. To 26 begin to identify the neural systems associated with this natural loss state, we used 27 functional magnetic resonance imaging to study 10 women and 5 men who had recently 28 been rejected by a partner but reported they were sti...

The tribal character of the affective link between football fans and their teams is a well-recognized phenomenon. Other forms of love such as romantic or maternal attachment have previously been studied from a neuroimaging point of view. Here we aimed to investigate the neural basis of this tribal form of love, which implies both the feeling of belongingness and rivalry against opposing teams. ...