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�…

As love seems to be universal, researchers have attempted to find its biological basis.
However, no studies till date have shown its direct association with reproductive success�…

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 &�…

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�…

This article evaluates a thesis containing three interconnected propositions. First, romantic
love is a “commitment device” for motivating pair-bonding in humans. Second, pair-bonding�…

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

“Love is blind,” according to a common saying.“Love is a recent invention, a mere few
hundred years old,” some social scientists have argued.“Love is limited to Western cultures,”�…

Humans show incredible diversity in their social systems across cultures and even more
variation at the individual level—documenting these differences is enough to keep many�…

The scientific efforts to understand love and sex stem from the late nineteenth century and
continued in twentieth century. Despite those early attempts, scholars often resisted�…

Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in
kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or�…