Compassionate love has received research attention over the last decade, but it is as yet unclear how it is experienced over a lifetime. The purpose of this study was to investigate compassionate love for a romantic partner throughout the adult life span, exploring individual differences in the propensity to experience compassionate love in regard to age, gender, religion, love status, love sty...

Salience and satisfaction are important factors in determining the comparisons that people make. We hypothesized that people make salient comparisons first, and then make satisfying comparisons only if salient comparisons leave them unsatisfied. This hypothesis suggests an asymmetry between winning and losing. For winners, comparison with a salient alternative (i.e., losing) brings satisfaction...

Viewing desperate love as marked by urgency, neediness, dependence, a great need for reciprocation, indealization, and affective extremes, personality traits leading to desperate love were examined. A sample of 251 undergraduates, in desperate love, nondesperate love, and random groups, completed several questionnaires examining characteristic qualities of self and important others and attitude...

through a mystical glance, jami looks, understands and explains the universe. in such an interpretation, love is the most determining concept. love, in this view, isn’t just an emotional relation between two humans- though it is too- but is a widespread and pervasive category that helps you to find creation stimulus and interrelations in different universal phenomenon. what stimulate god to cre...

“layla wa madjnun” is one of the most prominence of lyric stories that is in it’s structure‚ content and motifs similar with “orwe wa afrae” story. both of them are an appearance from ozri love. therefore this loving stories are fitting for comparison. writers in this article intend to compaire‚descrip and analysis in this two stories; and show the most important features of ozri love. writers ...