Highlights•Pair bonds are biologically prepared and rely on many of the same underlying
neural substrates as childhood attachments.•Attachment relationships and pair bonds buffer�…

Society tells us that sex is an act of self-expression, a personal choice for physical pleasure
that can be summed up in the ubiquitous phrase:“hooking up". Millions of American�…

Romantic love is one of our most potent and powerful emotions, but very little is known with
respect to the hormonal and psychological mechanisms in play. Romantic love is thought to�…

Periods of bond formation are accompanied by physiological and emotional changes, yet,
little is known about the effects of falling in love on the individual's physiological response to�…

As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and
grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an�…

To determine whether or not love acts have changed since Buss first examined them in
(1988) and to determine which love acts are perceived as most effective, three studies were�…

Pair-bonded relationships form during periods of close spatial proximity and high
sociosexual contact. Like other monogamous species, marmosets form new social pairs�…

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�…

Background Some patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) are treated with methadone
maintenance therapy (MMT). However, as with opioids, methadone has major side-effects;�…

We assessed the impact of an individual difference variable, relationship-focused thinking,
on women's acute salivary cortisol responses during and after a guided imagery task�…