Questions tagged [love]
For questions regarding love, the feeling thereof, the capacity to, or lack thereof. Love as a motivation, the need to love, loving another person, an animal, an inanimate object, a concept, or ideal. Development of the capacity thereof.
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Best tests or questionnaires to measure person's ability to love
What are the best methods (questionnaires/tests/etc) to measure ability to love?
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Light Triad Test (described in Scientific American)
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Why do very different people attract each other?
I have noticed than many couples are very different from each other but yet they fell in love in spite their differences. I was wondering about the psychology behind this.
Why would someone want to ...
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Separation of romantic and sexual attraction
Occasionally I meet people who say that they are sexually attracted to X group of people (e.g. men) and romantically attracted to Y group of people, X and Y not being the same (Sometimes they overlap, ...
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Why do teenage girls "fall in love" with idols?
Why do teenage girls "fall in love" with idols they never met?
This behaviour is much more uncommon (if it happens at all) among teenage boys (At least in my experience. I also did a quick survey ...
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Persistent problems among relationsips
Firstly my apologies if this isn't the correct se sight to ask this.
Background
I had a psychology professor some years ago (now that I think of it probably more like many years ago...) who ...
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Why are we so possessive of our significant others?
Something about falling in love seems to make people very possessive about their significant other. This happens even though sharing is almost universally acknowledged as an act of kindness and ...
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From a neuroscientific standpoint, what are the most effective ways to develop empathy, love and compassion for others?
From a neuroscientific standpoint, what are the most effective ways to develop empathy, love and compassion for others? For example, in the Buddhist lore there are some meditations targeted at ...
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Why are young girls writing love letters to the Parkland shooter?
Nikolas Cruz, now widely known as the shooter responsible for killing 17 students in Parkland, Florida and injuring another 17, is according to both CNN and the Sun Sentinel receiving piles of love ...
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Psychological theories about the end of a romantic relationship
There's no doubt: many couples break and many marriages break, what happens in these cases?
In the loving encounter brain areas aimed at judgment and critical analysis, are clouded by an increase of ...
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lovemap concept
I got to know about a theory called as "lovemap" concept. It was propounded by John Money to explain the underlying concepts of amorous bonding (Although , broadly it covers the origin of sexual ...
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What is commonly known as 'love'? [duplicate]
Love is a common topic in literature, drama and music. People talk about loving people, being 'in love', falling out of love etc.
I think often in common usage people aren't necessarily referring to ...
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How can we scientifically measure love?
I want to understand the psychology of love, and I found the Triangular Theory of Love on Wikipedia from this question, which I think is very believable. However, there is a big section on mixed ...
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Correlation between selfie and Narcissism
Are there scientific evidence to correlate selfie pictures and Narcissism? I am curious when and after what threshold does self love move into the Narcissistic phase?
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Why do battered persons love their partners?
Many persons who have been beaten by their partner, no matter how violently, claims that they do not want to leave their abusive partner because they still love them. A common phrase is: "I love him/...
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Is attraction between two people just physical, not neurological/psychological?
In the Richard Morgan's sci-fi debut Altered Carbon, the technology exists to separate a person's consciousness and put it into another body or "sleeve". The protagonist Takeshi Kovacs, is downloaded ...
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Why do some parents prefer some children more than others?
Is it true that parents tend to love or have a higher preference for some particular children of theirs?
If so, why?
Have any studies stated which of their children they love or prefer more?
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What is psychological basis of the great love parents have for their children?
Why is it that the parents, specially the mother, generally have this unmatched love for their children?
What is the psychological reason behind it?
Is it more biological than psychological?
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Can scientific evidence support concepts of the soul?
In some spiritual premises, the soul is said to belong to the Almighty.
Religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism) all talk about cleansing our inner being because only when it's pure, its actual ...
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Looking for happines in marriage survey according to living/not living together before marriage
Do you know any research/survey results comparing how happy do people feel in marriage (after a few years) comparing marriages who lived together before marrying and living separately?
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How to predict romantic attraction
Dating websites and psychological researchers attempt to find those factors that predict the fit between potential romantic partners. Examples for factors taken into consideration are the "big five" ...
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Why does a person get obsessive for those who don't take interest in him?
Why does a person get obsessive, Specially towards those who don't accept his love or attraction towards them?
Self esteem has such an impact on human life that he wants to preserve his esteem in any ...
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How has psychology categorised different types of love?
How has psychological theory categorised the different types of love?
What taxonomies of love are most accepted or useful in psychology?
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I went through Triangular theory of love. Are there any ...
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What is the difference between having a crush on someone and loving someone?
What is the difference between having a crush on someone and loving someone?
What is the psychological basis of this?
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Can bipolar disorder be considered a malfunction of the "love circuit" in the human brain?
I've not so long ago read a book on depression by a Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Levi. The book's title can be roughly translated as "Not only depression, but a pursuit of mood". I have not been able ...
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