MetaFilter posts tagged with psychology and love

A wife doubts her husband's doubt about their marriage.

shivohum — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:41:44 -0800

What would you do if your husband of many years, with whom you had created a family and with whom you led what you considered to be a successful life, suddenly said he thought he no longer loved you? One woman's approach: refuse to believe it. Not everyone agrees.

Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss

badego — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:59:17 -0800

“It would be completely unethical to give the drug to someone else,” he said, “but if you’re in a marriage and want to maintain that relationship, you might take a little booster shot yourself every now and then. Even now it’s not such a far-out possibility that you could use drugs in conjunction with marital therapy.”

Love at first smell, and what stinky t-shirts tell us about attraction

iamkimiam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:08:37 -0800

"There's no Brad Pitt of smell," Herz says. "Body odor is an external manifestation of the immune system, and the smells we think are attractive come from the people who are most genetically compatible with us." "Not only does kissing serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a sample of MHC, but it also magnifies the other attraction signals--if only as a result of proximity." — Time Magazine But sometimes the tastes and scents can trick us, or other factors, such as the "divorce pill" make us think something is right for us when it may not be so. These insights found in a pile of stinky t-shirts. Cover stories this month in both Psychology Today and Time magazine reveal why we kiss, why we flirt, why women's menstrual cycles sync, and many other keys to attraction. It's all so...romantic.

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Tlogmer — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:44:43 -0800

The Symmetry Thesis

90% Matematch guaranteed or your money back

daksya — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:08:41 -0800

The Mathematics of Love - predicting, with 90% accuracy, what will happen to a relationship over a three-year period.

Math

semmi — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:42:54 -0800

Every Unhappy Family Has Its Own Bilinear Influence Function.

stbalbach — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:19:45 -0800

Doctor of love anthropologist Helen Fisher argues that romance, marriage and divorce follow predictable patterns as old as the species. The evidence is as near as your local bar. Objective observations about Love and what it means when her toes curl.