The present study is a phonetic analysis of the emotions of love. We focus on the voicing differentiation of romantic love, parental-child love, friendship (love for a friend), and patriotism. Open quotient, spectral tilt, formant frequencies and amplitudes were extracted from a target word spoken by male and female college students as they provided the voice over for selected video clips. Resu...

Objectives. This study examined how the love variables (intimacy, passion, commitment and the six love styles) are differences between genders and relationship stages. In addition, associations between love variables and relationship satisfaction among local romantic partners were studied. Method. Participants were eighty-two couples who have involved in a romantic relationship (dating or marri...

this article is the outcome of the study with the purpose of considering the relationship between the criteria of marriage including the romantic love and proportionate marriage with marital satisfaction. in this article, it has been taken advantage of the theory of universal language of love by hendrix and triangular theory of sternberg, yung’s unconscious ideal sample, as well as the theory o...

the subject of love has been a source of inspiration for poets and men of letters as well as a basic element for many literary works in the world and especially in the oriental literary works. arabic poets have also placed the subject of love as the progenitor of the seminal and enduring works and have presented different interpretations of it depending on their personality, their life experien...

Previous work has shown that the tendency to positively perceive a romantic partner’s physical attractiveness (i.e., the love-is-blind bias) is associated with positive self and relationship outcomes. Here, we examined possible associations between the love-is-blind bias and a negative relational outcome, namely the experience of jealousy. A total of 217 participants provided ratings of the ove...

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...