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The New Psychology of Love

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deals with wide range of truly scientific aspects of love. a rare book, well worth the purchase.

A superb compilation of well-documented research on the dynamics of love and loss. However the book may appear to be of more interest to academics, anthropologists, social scientists, and psychlogists than to the mass market. But a worthwile read for those interested in the consequences of love/rejection/abandonment/recovery.

Nonetheless, for those who are suffering from the inability to find closure at the end of rejecting relationships, it may be helpful (once you overcome the academic jargon,) to comprehend the neurological chemistry of broken relationships suggesting,via studies of the brain, that that the elongated recovery from rejection and unrequited love correlates to chemical addictions such as cocaine.

In light of this:

Look online for the paper published by Fisher,et.al (2010) Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook "Reward Addition, and Regulation Emotional Systems Associated with Rejection in love"

Very insightful and informative.

I was looking for this book for a class I'm taking. The course is very good and the book was very well chosen for the class.

The articles in the book are mostly surveys of research. The research in turn was carried out mostly on American college students. Other cultures hardly find a mention. Disproportionate space is given to evolutionary theories/speculation. The book may be useful to you if you are an academic working in this area, but it is worthless if you are an intelligent layperson trying to understand love better.