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

Introduction Brain imaging is becoming a powerful tool in the study of human cerebral
functions related to close personal relationships. Outside of subcortical structures�…

Humans belong to a minority of mammalian species that exhibit monogamous pair‐bonds,
thereby enabling biparental care of offspring. The high reward value of interpersonal�…

We pursued our functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of the neural
correlates of romantic love in 24 subjects, half of whom were female (6 heterosexual and 6�…

The biological mechanisms underlying long-term partner bonds in humans are unclear. The
evolutionarily conserved neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is associated with the formation of�…

Although a great deal of research addresses the neural basis of deliberate and intentional
emotion-regulation strategies, less attention has been paid to the neural mechanisms�…

Introduction One of the most difficult dilemmas in relationship science and couple therapy
concerns the interaction between sexual desire and love. As two mental states of intense�…

Compared to the study of negative emotions such as fear, the neurobiology of positive
emotional processes and the associated positive affect (PA) states has only recently�…

A fundamental question about the relationship between cognition and emotion concerns the
neural substrate underlying emotional self-regulation. To address this issue, brain activation�…

In this work, we address an important but unexplored topic, namely the neural correlates of
hate. In a block-design fMRI study, we scanned 17 normal human subjects while they�…