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  2. Biology of romantic love - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Storge - Wikipedia

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    Storge (/ ˈ s t ɔːr ɡ i / STOR-gee; [1] from Ancient Greek στοργή (storgḗ) 'love, affection'), [2] or familial love, refers to natural or instinctual affection, [1] [3] such as the love of a parent towards offspring and vice versa. In social psychology, another term for love between good friends is philia. [3]

  4. Emotional lateralization - Wikipedia

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    [n 8] Another study found that women but not men, with women had greater activation of their right hemisphere while viewing unpleasant faces and left hemisphere activation while viewing pleasant faces. [8] Yet, another study found contrasting sex difference while recording EEG waves in the parietal and frontal lobes. Negative pictures activated ...

  5. Colour wheel theory of love - Wikipedia

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    The colour wheel theory of love is an idea created by the Canadian psychologist John Alan Lee that describes six love [1] styles, using several Latin and Greek words for love. First introduced in his book Colours of Love: An Exploration of the Ways of Loving (1973), Lee defines three primary, three secondary, and nine tertiary love styles ...

  6. Limerence - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Emotion perception - Wikipedia

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    Emotion perception refers to the capacities and abilities of recognizing and identifying emotions in others, in addition to biological and physiological processes involved. . Emotions are typically viewed as having three components: subjective experience, physical changes, and cognitive appraisal; emotion perception is the ability to make accurate decisions about another's subjective ...

  8. Theories of love - Wikipedia

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    Such as, "affection", similar to "companionate love" in social psychology field, is the term most strongly co-occurs with terms in its generic sub-cluster and not with other terms in other sub-cluster groups: "Affection" for example contrasts significantly with "passionate love", which belongs to the second large sub-cluster – "lust". [42]

  9. A General Theory of Love - Wikipedia

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    A General Theory of Love is a book about the science of human emotions and biological psychiatry written by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon, and psychiatric professors at the University of California, San Francisco, and was first published by Random House in 2000. It has since been reissued twice, with new editions appearing in 2001 ...