Love is everywhere you look. People talk about love in pop songs, on TV, across social media, over dinner, at work, and in school hallways. There is also growing scientific interest in romantic love, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Words often fail to describe how fervent of a force love is—in ...

Many of us dream of that whirlwind romance where we get swept off our feet and live ‘happily ever after’. But not every important relationship in your life will be romantic. Many will turn out to be ...

Love, they say, is a many-splendored thing. However, love is hard to define, and that’s equally true for researchers as for the lay public. Aside from varying culturally, 1 psychological theories of ...

Love is a complex, not well-understood emotion that can occur for people at different rates. Scientists have developed a model for understanding love that includes four fundamental components: ...