… and some love scholars prefer to think of love as an emotion. After … love qualifies as an
emotion depends on how one defines emotion and, unfortunately for love scholars, the emotion …

… A much more detailed examination of the same large territory, including a nearly exhaustive
literature review, can be found in our recent book (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007). At the end of …

… this emotion. Over the next 60 years, numerous scales of romantic and passionate love were
… This paper attempts to fill in the missing information on existing love scales by providing a …

… Also, the role of oxytocin in both love and desire may … greater interconnections between
love and desire than do men. … , and emotional processes that shape experiences of love and …

… From a scientific perspective, love is a hypothetical construct with many … various emotional
states and behaviors associated with love are rarely investigated. In part this is because love …

… love”, while corresponding to a mid-level or “basic” emotion construct in English vocabulary
(eg, Shaver… served by different positive emotions (Bowlby, 1969; Shaver et al., 1996). Sexual …

… if X—some unknown psychological entity—is a basic emotion. If more research is needed to
… whether X is a basic emotion. Second, if we already know that X is a basic emotion, a strong …

… who are passionately in love and/or rejected in love show the basic symptoms of substance-…
5, including craving, mood modification, tolerance, emotional and physical dependence and …

… romantic love. We also used fMRI to study 15 men and women who had just been rejected
in love. … These data contribute to our view that romantic love is one of the three primary brain …

This article reviews the research literature and theory concerned with accuracy of
judgments in romantic relationships. We initially propose a model of cognition in (romantic) …