Scientific research on romantic love has been relatively sparse but is becoming more
prevalent, as it should. Unfortunately, several misconceptions about romantic love are�…

Research investigating the mechanisms that contribute to romantic love is in its infancy. The
behavioral activation system is one biopsychological system that has been demonstrated to�…

Romantic love is a phenomenon of immense interest to the general public as well as to
scholars in several disciplines. It is known to be present in almost all human societies and�…

Scholars from different disciplines have investigated the nature of love for centuries. It has
been only in the past century that social psychologists have begun to scientifically�…

The three most central questions in recent psychological and neuroscientific approaches to
love are:(1) why people fall in love,(2) what love is, and (3) what causes unhealthy love to�…

Neuroscientific approaches are actively being used to gain intriguing and valuable insight
into the nature of love and relationships. There is a simultaneous burgeoning of behavioral�…

Love is a perennial topic of fascination for scholars and laypersons alike. Whereas
psychological science was slow to develop active interest in love, the past few decades�…

Romantic love has received significant theoretical and empirical attention from the
perspectives of evolutionary psychology and traditional social psychology. Although their�…

The aim of this dissertation is to locate romantic love in the space of mental phenomena.
Although romantic love is characterized as an emotion by a number of philosophers�…

Although sexual desire and romantic love are often experienced in concert, they are
fundamentally distinct subjective experiences with distinct neurobiological substrates. The�…