Humans are uniquely designed to be affected in numerous ways by romantic love. Romantic
love is an intense feeling that attracts people to one another and keeps them together for�…

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�…

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

For 25 years, the predominant evolutionary theory of romantic love has been Fisher's theory
of independent emotion systems. That theory suggests that sex drive, romantic attraction�…

We propose that romantic love is a biosocial phenomenon that may well be a universal and
that its cultural aspects are a product of social conditions. This position is unique because�…

Romantic love appears to be a nearly universal phenomenon, appearing in every culture for
which data are available (Janowiak & Fischer, 1992) and in every historical era (Hatfield &�…

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�…

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

ROMANTIC LOVE USES BRAIN SURVIVAL CIRCUITS 209 about the other person for most
of our day. 2 The psychologist Dorothy Tennov called it “Limerance.” 3 Elaine Hatfield�…

Why do some people experience more profound levels of love than others? The answer to
that question depends first and foremost on one's definition of love (Hatfield and Rapson�…