Affection, Speed Dating and Heart Breaking* This paper explores the role of unilateral and idiosyncratic affection rents (’love’) from being married with a specific individual in a matching model with individuals with heterogenous matching frequencies. We show that individuals suffer in expectation from being matched with individuals with high matching frequency. High-frequency daters have high...

OBJECTIVE to identify and describe men's experiences of sexuality after having a child. DESIGN a qualitative study using an interpretative phenomenological approach for analysing in-depth interviews. PARTICIPANTS purposeful sampling was used. 12 men were interviewed six to 13 months after having a child. Informants were men who became fathers for the first time or had already fathered a chi...

Are economic resources related to relationship quality among young couples, and to what extent does this vary by relationship type? To answer these questions, we estimated regression models predicting respondent reports of conflict and affection in cohabiting and married partner relationships using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 (NLSY97, N = 2,841) and the National Longitudinal ...

Abstract Deep personal relationships involve deep mutual understanding and strong affection. This paper focuses on whether having is one of the elements well-being. Roger Crisp put forward thought experiments which might be taken to suggest that has only instrumental value as a means other The different conclusion this draws an element well-being if, but people involved have qualities merit aff...

BDI (Belief Desire Intention) cognitive framework has become a popular tool to design intelligent agents. Particularly, EBDI (Emotional BDI) agents have emerged strongly in the last years. Its affective modeling usually includes emotions, mood, personality and also some affective capacities. Despite this, there are affective aspects that are not considered when modeling affection and a proposal...