This study investigated the possible differences between single individuals and individuals in nonmarital romantic relationships in the domains of emotional (romantic and family) and social loneliness, and of perceived social support from family, friends and significant others. Based on a Polish university-student sample of 315 participants (167 women and 148 men) aged 19 to 25 years (M = 21.90...

Three studies explored how the traits that people ideally desire in a romantic partner, or ideal partner preferences, intersect with the process of romantic relationship initiation and maintenance. Two attraction experiments in the laboratory found that, when participants evaluated a potential romantic partner's written profile, they expressed more romantic interest in a partner whose traits we...

Two online studies evaluated the misperception of sexual and romantic interests in established relationships and tested four hypotheses: a simple sex-difference hypothesis, a projection hypothesis, a mate value hypothesis, and a mediation hypothesis. Two hundred thirty-eight (Study 1) and 198 (Study 2) members of young adult opposite-sex friendship dyads indicated their sexual and romantic inte...

most of iranian comedy films, before and after the revolution, can be categorized as romantic comedies. these films depict romantic relationship between men and women as a funny incident and constitute the iranian romantic comedy genre. drawing on genre theory, this paper aims at understanding the relationship between the romantic comedy’s heroes and heroines with their friends, and at finding ...

Romantic relationships can have a profound effect on adults' health and well-being whereas the inability to maintain intimate bonds has been associated with physical and emotional distress. Studies in monogamous mammalian species underscore the central role of oxytocin (OT) in pair-bonding and human imaging studies implicate OT-rich brain areas in early romantic love. To assess the role of OT i...

The first half of the eighteenth century witnessed a resurgence Platonism in literature generally and theology Germany en Holland particular, because appeal Plato’s ideas held for distinction between immanent transcendental reality, man’s quest unity with Good, human soul as vehicle uniting God. Because most beings are preoccupied material things, Plato believed they need to have their thoughts...

unity of being (wahdat al-wujud) is the highest form of theunity of god (tawhid) and the fundamental principle oftheoretical mysticism. it was since ibn al-arabi's time in 7thcentury that theoretical mysticism was consistently developed.since then the concept of unity of being has continued toreceive attention and many scholars have written books andtreatises both in proving and rejecting ...