Three experiments investigated the relationship between women's romantic fantasies and their interest in personal power. Romantic fantasies (associating partners with chivalry and heroism) were assessed using the Implicit Association Test and self-reports. In each experiment, women's implicit romantic fantasies were dissociated with their conscious beliefs. More important, implicit (but not exp...

Article history: Received 9 January 2016 Received in revised form 19 February 2016 Accepted 20 February 2016 Available online 1 March 2016 Researchers of romantic relationships have highlighted the role of forgiveness in relationshipmaintenance. However, to our knowledge, there has not yet been a study conducted to examine the relationship between forgiveness and romantic relationship dissoluti...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether using the Internet for different activities affects the quality of close adolescent relationships (i.e., best friendships and romantic relationships). In a one-year longitudinal study of 884 adolescents (Mean age = 15, 46% male), we examined whether visiting chat rooms, using ICQ, using the Internet for general entertainment, or participating i...

The majority of teens are having sex, however, we know little about the patterns of nonromantic sexual activity and the factors associated with non-romantic sexual experiences. In fact, prior work indicates that contraceptive use depends on the relationship context of sexual intercourse. Yet, research on the characteristics of teens who engage in non-romantic sex is limited. We use the National...

Five studies develop and examine the predictive validity of an implicit measure of the preference for physical attractiveness in a romantic partner. Three hypotheses were generally supported. First, 2 variants of the go/no-go association task revealed that participants, on average, demonstrate an implicit preference (i.e., a positive spontaneous affective reaction) for physical attractiveness i...

Researchers have previously reported a negative association between romantic involvement and the discrepancy between the actual self and the ideal self. The authors present a schema-based model of romantic involvement and self-discrepancy to help explain this association, focusing on the impact of terminated relationships—“ghosts from the past.” In Study 1, participants primed with a past relat...

Psychological birth order was examined as predictor of future time orientation in romantic relationships among Turkish people using a Turkish version (Kalkan, 2005) of the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory (Campbell, White & Stewart, 1991) and the Future Time Orientation in Romantic Relationships Scale (Öner, 2000). A total of 407 university students from Ondokuz Mayıs Universi...

This article describes a simple unsupervised system for automatic extraction and classification of named entities in French novels. The solution presented combines a set of different standalone classifiers within a meta-recognition system. The system is tested on 35 classic French novels, representing 5 million words and 3,700 names of people and places. The results demonstrate that although no...

This flow can be quantified and compared by analyzing the text using natural language processing techniques. This study uses word embedding models to generate time series for novels and then compare the resulting series using dynamic time warping to find similarities. Considering time series analysis rather than a pure statistical one can capture the flow of the works and thus the similarities ...

popular novels are among recentphenomena in literary trends with a large number of audience and high salerates. this paper is an attempt to analyze the degree and reasons forreading popular novels by students of university of isfahan. we studied popularnovels in three different dimensions:  appearance, content and literary qualities.variables such as gender, level of education, socio-economic s...