Bedouin culture is the traditional way of life of the Arabic-speaking nomads who lived in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia in the past. Bedouins are desert dwellers—the people who live out in the … Continue reading
The Two Meanings of Love in Bedouin Culture
The field study of relationships in Bedouin culture, conducted by American anthropologist Dr. Deborah Wickering (1997), uncovered a diversity of love conceptions in those cultural groups. Bedouins distinguish two kinds of love: ilhub and ralya. What Kind of Love Does … Continue reading
Love in Bedouin Culture
Bedouin culture is the culture of the nomadic Arab people who live in Arabia, the territory that stretches from the deserts of North Africa to the rocky sands of the Middle East. Living in tribes, they have a common culture … Continue reading
What Kind of Partners Do Men and Women Prefer to Love and Marry?
Would you marry someone who is beautiful or handsome, kind, smart, honest, dependable, and industrious, as well as having many other qualities you desire in a mate, but you are not in love with her or him? What do men … Continue reading
How Mate Preferences Have Changed Over Recent Decades
Common laypeople’s observations may show that human mate preferences remain consistent over time. Have mating preferences changed over recent decades? Nevertheless, the changes in society’s cultural norms still affected mating preferences. In many countries, societies have evolved: People in modernized … Continue reading
Sexy Voice for Interpersonal Attraction
Multisensory perception is important for interpersonal attraction and love. And women and men who are physically attractive may appear differently in different cultures. Men and women not only look at their partners with admiration but also come closer, speak, sing, … Continue reading
Attractive Personality Traits for Relationship
Several articles on this blog have covered a wide range of physical and socioeconomic characteristics that people in various cultures search for in potential mating partners. The last article demonstrated how the stereotype “what-is-beautiful-is-good” makes us believe in many other … Continue reading
What Physical Attractiveness Tells about Personality Traits
We like to talk to and have a relationship with beautiful and physically attractive men and women. Their physical attractiveness is pleasant for interpersonal communication. What is their personality like? Do pleasant or unpleasant personality traits predispose us to perceive … Continue reading
The Culturally High Emotional Expressiveness of Love
The studies presented in this article show that high levels of emotional expressiveness have become culturally normative forms of self-expression in modern societies. Multiple studies throughout the decades have reported numerous cross-cultural findings on how physical types of appearance, such … Continue reading
The Culturally Low-Expressed Emotion of Love
This article presents the findings of multiple studies on how low levels of expressed emotion are culturally typical for people in traditional collectivistic societies. Other articles on this website have presented an abundance of cross-cultural findings on the physical traits—face, … Continue reading