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�…

Although philosophers, psychologists, artists, and poets have been interested in the nature
and origin of passionate love throughout the ages, only in the 1960s have social�…

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�…

The scientific study of human love has undergone dramatic changes during the past several
decades. As recently as 1975, Senator Henry Proxmire took the floor of the Senate 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�…

Maternal and passionate love are both crucial for reproduction and involve attachment
behaviors with high rewards. Neurobiological studies of attachment in animal and human�…

The author comments on and criticizes some conclusions of the article by Lubomir Lamy
entitled “Beyond Emotion: Love as an Encounter of Myth and Drive.” In addition, she shows�…

Throughout history, artists, poets, and writers have been interested in the nature of
passionate love, sexual desire, and sexual behavior. In the 1960s, social psychologists and�…

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the
perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial�…