Abstract. Social exclusion, even from minimal game-based interactions, induces negative consequences. We investigated whether the nature of relationship with excluder modulates effects ostracism. Participants played a virtual ball-tossing game stranger and friend (friend condition) or their romantic partner (partner while being fully included, excluded, excluded only by stranger, close other. R...

Research on familiar face recognition has largely focused on the neural correlates of recognizing a beloved partner or family member. However, no research has explored the effect of marriage style on the recognition of a beloved partner's face, especially in matriarchal societies. Here, we examined the time course of event-related potentials (ERP) in response to the face of a beloved partner, s...

Andrew Lover and colleagues discuss regional malaria initiatives, the strengths and challenges.

D r Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the Beloved Community, a term first coined in the early days of the twentieth century by philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce. Dr King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. As explained by The King Center, the memorial institution founded by Coretta Scott King to f...

In event-related potential (ERPs) studies, emotional stimuli usually elicit an enhanced late positive potential (LPP), which is assumed to reflect motivated attention. However, whether a stimulus elicits emotional responses may depend on the individual's state, such as experiencing romantic love. It has been suggested that stimuli that are related to someone's beloved will elicit increased atte...