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1. • • Love is not just an emotion people feel toward other people, but also a complex tying together of the emotions that two or a few more people have; it is a special form of emotional interdependence.
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   Is love just an emotion?

   • As Annette Baier puts it: Love is not just an emotion people feel toward other people, but also a complex tying together of the emotions that two or a few more people have; it is a special form of emotional interdependence. ( Unsafe Loves, p. 444)

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   Is Love a 'basic emotion'?

   • It seems strange, then, that love does not feature in most psychologists’ lists of “basic emotions”, nor in Psychology Today’s own subject menu, unlike anger, anxiety, fear, grief, happiness, and jealousy, which are all there.

   Is Love an Emotion? - Psychology Today

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   How does love differ from emotions?

   • The comparison helps to underscore the ways in which love differs from emotions. We do not want to imply that love is pathological or problematic. But we do think love is both idiosyncratic and interestingly insensitive to reason in ways that can be lost if we classify it as an emotion.

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   What is love?

   • Love is an emotion consisting of patterns of neural firing. The question “” is one of the most frequent Web searches. But we learn little from dictionary definitions of love as an intense and powerful feeling of attachment and devotion.

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   Which emotion is most common in everyday life?

   • If you ask people to come up with a list of emotions, love is usually one of the first they mention. It is an ever-present topic in human life and culture. One study found that love was rated as the most prototypically “emotional” of all emotions, and another that love was the emotion most frequently experienced in everyday life.

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   What are some mechanisms that dispose people toward feelings of Love?

   • Other mechanisms that dispose people toward occurring feelings of love are molecular, ranging from dopamine circuitry to hormonal changes. Also dispositional are stored beliefs, for example that the other person is highly suitable as a mate.

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   Feb 14, 2015 · Love is not just an emotion people feel toward other people, but also a complex tying together of the emotions that two or a few more people have; it is a special form of emotional...

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   Jul 29, 2024 · If you understand love purely in terms of the feelings it stirs up, the love is over once these feelings disappear, change or get put on hold by something like a move or a new school.

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   Oct 2, 2023 · One study found that love was rated as the most prototypically “emotional” of all emotions, and another that love was the emotion most frequently experienced in everyday life.

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   Sep 16, 2024 · Love is a powerful, complex emotional experience that involves changes in your body chemistry, including your neurotransmitters (brain chemicals). It impacts your social relationships in varied...

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   Aug 1, 2024 · The ancient Greek philosopher Plato thought that love might cause feelings like attraction and pleasure, which are out of your control. But these feelings are less important than the loving relationships you choose to form as a result: lifelong bonds between people who help one another change and grow into their best selves.

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   Aug 31, 2015 · The question “What is love?” is one of the most frequent Web searches. But we learn little from dictionary definitions of love as an intense and powerful feeling of attachment and devotion.

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    Feb 6, 2017 · It examines major emotion theories in philosophy and psychology and shows that they fail to illustrate that romantic love is an emotion. It considers the categories of basic emotions and emotion complexes, and demonstrates they too come short in accounting for romantic love.