Love - Scientific models

Love has several different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art. Love might best be defined as acting intentionally, in sympathethic response to ot ...

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• Love - Impersonal love
• Love - Religious love
• Love - Scientific models
• Love - Attraction and attachment
• Love - Companionate vs. passionate
• Love - Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
• Love - Love styles
• Love - Phases
• Love - Cultural views
• Love - Chinese
• Love - Japanese
• Love - Ancient Greek
• Love - Latin
• Love - Religious views
• Love - Christian
• Love - Buddhist
• Love - Hindu
• Love - Islamic
• Love - Jewish
• Love - Mythological
• Love - Theological
• Love - Human love
• Love - Other types of love philias

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Biological models of love tend to see it as a mammalian drive, just like hunger or thirst. Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. There are probably elements of truth in both views — certainly love is influenced by hormones (such as oxytocin) and pheromones, and how people think and behave in love is influenced by their conceptions of love. Love - Attraction and attachment. The conventional view in biology is that there are two major drives in love — sexual attraction and attachment. Attachment between adults is presumed to work on the same principles that lead an infan ...

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Love, Love - Impersonal love, Love - Religious love, Love - Scientific models, Love - Attraction and attachment, Love - Companionate vs. passionate, Love - Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love, Love - Love styles, Love - Phases, Love - Cultural views, Love - Chinese, Love - Japanese, Love - Ancient Greek, Love - Latin, Love - Religious views, Love - Christian, Love - Buddhist, Love - Hindu, Love - Islamic, Love - Jewish, Love - Mythological, Love - Theological, Love - Human love, Love - Other types of love philias

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Love - Chinese. In contemporary Chinese language and culture, several terms or root words are used for the concept of "love": Ai (愛) is used as a verb (e.g. Wo ai ni, "I love you") or as a noun, especially in aiqing (愛情), "love" or "romance." In mainland China since 1949, airen (愛人, originally "lover," or more literally, "love person") is the dominant word for "spouse" (with separate terms for "wife" and "husband" originally being de-emphasized); the word once ha ...

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Love, Love - Impersonal love, Love - Religious love, Love - Scientific models, Love - Attraction and attachment, Love - Companionate vs. passionate, Love - Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love, Love - Love styles, Love - Phases, Love - Cultural views, Love - Chinese, Love - Japanese, Love - Ancient Greek, Love - Latin, Love - Religious views, Love - Christian, Love - Buddhist, Love - Hindu, Love - Islamic, Love - Jewish, Love - Mythological, Love - Theological, Love - Human love, Love - Other types of love philias

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Love - Christian. There are several Greek words for Love that are regularly referred to in Christian circles. Agape - In the New Testament, agapē is charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional. It is parental love seen as creating goodness in the world, it is the way God is seen to love humanity, and it is seen as the kind of love that Christians aspire to have for one another. Phileo - Also used in the New Testament, Phileo is a human response to something that is fou ...

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Love, Love - Impersonal love, Love - Religious love, Love - Scientific models, Love - Attraction and attachment, Love - Companionate vs. passionate, Love - Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love, Love - Love styles, Love - Phases, Love - Cultural views, Love - Chinese, Love - Japanese, Love - Ancient Greek, Love - Latin, Love - Religious views, Love - Christian, Love - Buddhist, Love - Hindu, Love - Islamic, Love - Jewish, Love - Mythological, Love - Theological, Love - Human love, Love - Other types of love philias

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