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Limerence is a state of mind resulting from romantic feelings for another person. It typically involves intrusive and melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection, along with a desire for the reciprocation of one's feelings and to form a relationship with the object of love.
They found that participants were notably less jealous but still maintained belief in other myths of romantic love at similar rates to the general populace. They concluded that despite arrangements designed to circumvent gendered expectations of love, most people are still routinely exposed to them and end up absorbing them.
[5] [6] Passionate love is said to usually only be present in the early stage of a relationship [7] with companionate love often following after; [2] [9] however, in a phenomenon called long-term romantic love, intense attraction can remain much longer than is typical for passionate love, but without obsessional elements.
For example, one patient described a person's face as having a nose deviated to the side, the mouth lying at a diagonal and one eyebrow being higher than the other. [5] Prosopometamorphopsia may either involve perceptions of the whole face or only one side of the face (usually after right hemisphere damage). [6]
The lovemap is a concept originated by sexologist John Money in his discussions of how people develop their sexual preferences. Money defined it as "a developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexual and erotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with that lover."
Hazan and Shaver [7] define love, using Ainsworth's attachment theory, as comprising proximity, emotional support, self-exploration, and separation distress when parted from the loved one. Other components commonly agreed to be necessary for love are physical attraction, similarity, [8] reciprocity, [5] and self-disclosure. [9]
At one time, when false balance was prevalent, news media sometimes reported all positions as though they were equally credible, even though the facts clearly contradicted a position, or there was a substantial consensus on one side of an issue, and only a fringe or nascent theory supporting the other side.
The chemicals triggered that are responsible for passionate love and long-term attachment love seem to be more particular to the activities in which both persons participate rather than to the nature of the specific people involved. [21] There is mixed evidence about the role of cortisol in romantic love. [26]