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Science of love, tolerating stinks, Slicing the self, Unusual sacrifices, Simple pleasures

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Science of love — “Losing and ending a romantic relationship is one of the most painful losses adults experience,” begins a BAS (bountifully acronymed study) by researchers in Germany and Iran, published in the Journal of […]

The Professor Who Says He Knows Love

Love is, to many researchers, so difficult to define that no one can grasp it scientifically. BUT… some researchers are undaunted in trying to understand and control love. Perhaps preeminent among the dauntless is Robert J. Sternberg, professor of development at Cornell University. Professor Sternberg’s web page proclaims: EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: If you’re interested in my […]

Tiffany Love’s Monetary Incentives Guide to “the Love Molecule”

Love, money, and a lovably-nicknamed molecule are all in the mix — hey, they ARE the mix — in this newly published study: “Oxytocin modulates hemodynamic responses to monetary incentives in humans,” Brian J. Mickey, Joseph Heffernan, Curtis Heisel, Marta Peciña, David T. Hsu, Jon-Kar Zubieta, Tiffany M. Love [pictured here], Psychopharmacology, epub 2016. The […]

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