How do you feel you are loved? Do you? Professor Mengya Xia and her colleagues from the University of Alabama recently conducted an interesting exploratory study on the core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships. This research … Continue reading
Studies Show That Gratitude Is Good for Our Well-Being
PDF Version. In several other articles on this blog, I wrote about gratitude, how people feel gratitude, how they practice gratitude, and how gratitude is beneficial for people, their well-being, and their relationships. Gratitude and altruistic love are omnipotent across … Continue reading
A Distinctive Smell Influences Our Emotions and Love
Smell is the most mysterious of the five senses, with an evocative power that can transfer us to different times, places, emotional states, and even the state of love. The scent of a particular perfume has a distinctive smell that … Continue reading
Love and Loving in Middle-Class Pakistan
The article by Ammara Maqsood, Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at University College London, tells us the modern story of love in Pakistan and how modern urban women manage their desire for love in Pakistan. Traditional marriages in Pakistan are … Continue reading
A Study Shows How Modern Single People Can Be Happy
Traditional cultural stereotypes have taught us for decades that marriage is the ultimate destiny for young men and women. They should find the right partner (as in love marriages), or someone should find them the right partner (as in arranged … Continue reading
Our Posture Shapes Interpersonal Feelings
We are wondering how our body posture expresses and affects our feelings towards other people. Many studies show that our body language, facial expressions, and posture say more about how we feel than what we say (Karandashev, 2021). Both what … Continue reading
How Body Posture Shows Interpersonal Emotions
Both our verbal and nonverbal communication express our interpersonal emotions and love. What our facial and bodily expressions say is not less important than what we say. We can say, “I love you,” yet our posture can tell something else. … Continue reading
Religious Kindness Leads to More Giving
Love is one of the most valuable human attitudes and emotions. It is present in all religious teaching across many religions. Religious Teachings of Love God encourages people to love and be kind to others. Here are, for example, some … Continue reading
People of the “Dark Triad” Tend to Be Manipulative in Relationships
Many studies have shown what personality traits are attractive for a romantic relationship. However, love studies have paid much less attention to exploring personality traits that negatively affect relationships. According to recent studies, people with Dark Triad traits are more … Continue reading
How to Avoid Date Night Boredom and Passion Decline
The article describes how a date night, and a romantic relationship can become boring and what partners can do to make them more passionate. Many love scholars consider passion to be a key feature of romantic love and the beginning … Continue reading