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Divine peacemaking overcomes the animosity of man and creates reconciliation out of love (Rom 5:1-11). Christians are called to continue in the work of reconciliation. Christian peacemaking happens as an actual synchronous coexistence of two different conditions with the simultaneity of different principles: human sin and the active love toward people in need (Luther) or the readiness to take responsibility and bear “the cross” of this world in following after Christ (Bonhoeffer). The change of paradigm in Christian ethics toward Just Peace is an important development. However, the goal of legal system promoting just peace by means of pacifism creates problems for the theory of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author considers the letters of Émilie Du Châtelet, an eighteenth-century woman mathematician, philosopher and scientist. The central argument of the paper is that Du Châtelet's letters leave traces of the process of becoming a femme philosophe, while also throwing light in her involvement in the scientific, philosophical and cultural formations of the early modern period. In this context Du Châtelet's personal letters carry inscriptions of love as a creative force of life and are tightly intertwined with her 'laboratory letters', her correspondence with important mathematicians and scientists of her times. In thus making connections between 'the personal' and the 'scientific' in Du Châtelet's correspondence, the paper sketches a feminist critical perspective on a plane of thinking around love as an existential force in its interrelation with mathematics, science and philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on romantic conflict has persuasively documented that the way partners communicate with one another during disagreements is a driving factor in predicting how they perceive the conflicts in their relationships. The current research added to this literature by differentiating couples who resolve conflicts more, versus less, successfully. Specifically, the current work examined how couples' behavioral trajectories across the course of conflict related to their perceptions of conflict resolution. To this end, we coded warmth and dominance behaviors exhibited by 173 couple members (346 individuals) over the course of an eight-minute conflict discussion. We examined how participants', and their partners', perceptions of conflict resolution were related to their interpersonal behaviors. In line with predictions, less average interpersonal warmth was associated with worse perceptions of resolution, and declining warmth over time was also associated with worse perceptions of resolution. Dominance behaviors were not associated with conflict resolution perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, there has been a growth in the amount of literature and a resurgence of interest in what Jools Page identified as 'professional love'. This research builds upon and extends Page's work considering what love looks like in practice and describing a 'loving pedagogy'. Despite recent research, love is still seldom talked about in the context of early childhood education and very few studies have considered what love looks like on a day-to-day basis within an early childhood setting. This small case study has identified that love is, indeed, present there in practice. Loving interactions were observed between adults and children in a preschool setting and how love manifests itself discussed with three educators during intimate conversations. This study compares observed practice with the educators' understanding of love and shows that a loving pedagogy exists within daily interactions and that there is a place for love within an early childhood setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Breaking the demand chain for sex from minors would render supply worthless, contributing to the elimination of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Using a novel sampling technique, this study reports on actual and potential adult customers of CSEC in two areas in Kathmandu (n = 466). Controlling for refusal conversion, age, education, and income, higher scores on a new Love-Fantasy Scale (LFS) were associated with increased odds of purchasing sex from young girls, as were patriarchal norms emphasizing the power of men. Further research is needed to design interventions that include aspects related to sexual fantasy for young girls to combat demand for CSEC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the theme of the impudence of individuals deemed insane in the presence of the divine has been explored by various authors prior to Attar, it is within his works that this concept is particularly emphasized. Attar dealt with the arrogance of these individuals, their unanswered inquiries, and their resistance to the destined order of creation, which persistently preoccupied his mind. From an intellectual viewpoint, this preoccupation can be attributed to his verbal disposition, while, from a socio-political perspective, it is influenced by the uprisings, tumults, and events that transpired during his formative years, resulting in the loss of numerous lives. Although this theme is discernible in the works of poets and writers preceding Attar, it is notably conspicuous in his poetry. Had these sentiments not been articulated by the individuals deemed insane or anyone other than Sufis, they would undoubtedly have been deemed blasphemous, akin to the way Khayyam was branded as a heretic with regard to certain quatrains. This study, conducted through documentation, library research and content analysis, seeks to address a few questions. Firstly, what were the reasons for the emergence of such a disposition in Attar's mind and philosophy? Secondly, would the Sufis have condemned these sentiments if they had been expressed by someone other than Attar, even if they were voiced by individuals deemed insane? As concluded, these were the internal concerns and contemplations of Attar, which he chose to convey through the words of individuals deemed insane as a means of unburdening his conscience and avoiding direct condemnation of others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every human and non-human animal must make tradeoffs in investments in terms of time, energy, and resources. The aim of this study was to extrapolate from the types of investments in survival and reproduction that non-human animals make and translate these into human motivations. 16 potential goals were presented to 851 childless, 18–23-year-old adults from 11 world regions in an online study. Each young adult was asked to weight the importance of every goal to his or her ideal life. Weights had to sum to 100, requiring tradeoffs. Results revealed striking agreement across young adults with only four goals weighted above chance: Finding a beloved romantic partner, being physically and emotionally healthy, and earning money or resources. Having lots of sexual partners was the least important goal across all world regions for both sexes. Nevertheless, men more than women valued having many sexual partners, being talented outside work, being physically strong, and having a physically attractive romantic partner. Overall, there was cultural variation in some of the less important goals. Helping young adults achieve success requires understanding their own goals, rather than focusing on popularized depictions of what young adults desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper begins with an investigation of Nishida Kitarō’s discussion of love in Zen no Kenkyū. Nishida claims that love is a deep union of subject and object, where the self is casted off and unites with the other. In other words, love is the expression of the self dissolving into the other, in which the self negates itself in order to further the other’s awakening to no-self. This paper then argues that we can carve out an account of forgiveness based on Nishida’s view of love. That if forgiveness is a practice of a higher form of love, then love, as the groundwork of a self-contradictory standpoint, is nothing other than the practice of forgiveness, and forgiveness is nothing other than repeated acts of love. Contemporary human life is one of co-existence, but conflict and divisions seem to be more of the rule of the day, which speaks to the importance of recovering the lost art of forgiveness. This paper seeks to re-assert forgiveness, as drawn from Nishida’s view of love, in the attempt to heal and address the fragmentation that prevents dialogue between warring factions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a primer to reading the primary texts of Jacques Lacan. I argue that there is an experiential dimension to the act of reading Lacanian texts that approximates the transmission of psychoanalysis in a clinical setting. A primary insistence is that Lacanian psychoanalysis has a fundamentally different relationship to knowledge than other therapeutic and theoretical traditions, and that therefore any emphasis on understanding is incongruous with the larger aims of the project. I discuss Lacanian conceptions of frustration and love in order to explore these ideas, before turning to a specific moment in the Lacanian corpus. I conclude by exploring implications for work in the public sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Love and freedom in the complex analytic system and the positive relationship between them are at the center of this paper. I argue that restriction or expansion of one impacts the other. I define freedom as an expansion of perspectives and the loving gaze as the vitalizing experience at the core of recognition and an indicator of movement away or toward recognition. Field theory, specifically post-Bionian Field Theory, and Storying are highlighted to support the emergence of both freedom and the loving gaze. Clinical examples are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the motivations behind infidelity among men with married women. The objective of this research is to delve into the psychological and social dynamics that drive men to choose married women as partners, despite it being wrong both religiously and legally. Using a phenomenological approach, this study conducts in-depth interviews with four (4) informants in their 30s and 40s who have had or are currently in romantic relationships with married women. The interview data were analyzed using thematic analysis to deeply understand the personal experiences of the informants. The results show that the primary motivations for men engaging in infidelity with married women include existing problematic marriages/relationships, the character of the married woman, curiosity, social acceptance, and opportunities for interaction, whether face-to-face or through modern digital interactions. The findings of this study contribute to the ongoing discussion on the importance of marital stability and the complexity of human relationships. The implications of this study highlight the necessity for targeted interventions and counseling aimed at straightening marital bonds and addressing the root causes of infidelity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud's paper on the three caskets is revisited. His view that the lead casket represented death is supported by extracts from The Merchant of Venice, in particular the song, "Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred". It is argued that the acceptance of death is a necessary step in the transformation of romantic love to mature love. With experience of reality a disillusion of romantic idealisation becomes possible, but this means that losses have to be accepted and mourned. It is argued that this is made more bearable if an ironic stance enables an acceptance of the pleasures of romance without believing them to be literally true. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although stress is an everyday fact of life, it can lead to poor health outcomes, particularly when intense or prolonged. However, humans have unique cognitive abilities and thus may be able to combat stress by engaging critical psychological defence mechanisms. In this review, we discuss the field of mind‐body medicine, which focuses on improving our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this response and developing interventions that might be used to limit the effects of chronic stress. We review the findings of past and current research in this field that has focused on the impact of psychological, emotional, and behavioural factors, including love, social connectedness, and happiness on human health and the amelioration of pain as well as other signs and symptoms of disease. While these studies have not yet led to confirmed, quantifiable conclusions, the overall weight of evidence suggests that happiness (defined as a personal sense of well‐being) may be directly associated with improved health parameters and reductions in debilitating symptoms. Collectively, these findings suggest that interventions designed to promote stress mitigation, notably those that encourage social activity, may lead to significant improvements in human health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the doctrine of substituted judgment, decision-makers for adults without legal capacity are to make the decision the person in their care would have made. In cases involving irreversible cognitive decline--where substituted judgment is most frequently applied--scholars have struggled to explain it, resorting to mysterious metaphysical claims. These philosophical acrobatics seem necessary because the person for whom the decision is made cannot appreciate it, and, philosophically, they may not be the same person they had been. This Article offers a novel account of substituted judgment that circumvents these challenges. I argue first that the doctrine is straightforwardly justified in cases of temporary incapacity, such as that of a psychotic episode, and then explain why the law might justifiably treat permanent incapacity as though it were temporary. In cases of temporary incapacity, substituted judgment is grounded in love. "Love" describes (at least) intimate knowledge of and concern for the personal identity of another. To make the decision someone would have made while they are temporarily unable to is an act of love. And there are at least three reasons the law might justifiably treat permanent incapacity as though it were temporary. First, there is substantial medical uncertainty about the prognosis of brain disorders. Second, it is characteristic of love that it is partially constitutive of the identities of those who love--a doctrine justified by love might recognize this. Finally, a liberal private law might acknowledge that, under many worldviews, what looks like permanent incapacity is in fact temporary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the growth of women's periodicals in China during the early twentieth century, women started to assume an unprecedentedly conspicuous role in print culture as both readers and essay writers. Targeting well-educated young women of the new era, the leading women's periodical, The Ladies' Journal (Funü zazhi 婦女雜誌), can function as the precious prism to examine the critical reading practice of young urban women of the time. This paper investigates how women's critical reading reflections on heterosexual love and gender relations that were manifested in the journal facilitated the formation of female subjectivity through women readers' engagement with new gender norms and knowledge. It argues that the introduction and promulgation of literary works and feminist ideologies concerning women's individuality embodied male editors' concern on women's empowerment, while also serving as their normative configurations of new knowledge surrounding womanhood and social progress. But women were not deprived of subjectivity when encountering these prescriptive knowledge. The public reading of texts that inspired young educated women to reflect on love and marriage displayed female readers' feminist consciousness, conceptualizing women's agency in providing alternatives for male intellectuals' vision and contributing to the construction of public knowledge through their own discursive efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historical evidence from stimulation and lesion studies in animals and humans demonstrated a close association between the hypothalamus and typical and atypical socioemotional behavior. A central hypothalamic contribution to regulation of socioemotional responses was also provided indirectly by studies on oxytocin and arginine vasopressin. However, a limited number of studies have so far directly investigated the contribution of the hypothalamus in human socioemotional behavior. To reconsider the functional role of the evolutionarily conserved hypothalamic region in regulating human social behavior, here I provide a synthesis of neuroimaging investigations showing that the hypothalamus is involved in multiple and diverse facets of human socioemotional behavior through widespread functional interactions with other cortical and subcortical regions. These neuroimaging findings are then integrated with recent optogenetics studies in animals demonstrating that the hypothalamus plays a more active role in eliciting socioemotional responses and is not simply a downstream effector of higher-level brain systems. Building on the aforementioned evidence, the hypothalamus is argued to substantially contribute to a continuum of human socioemotional behaviors promoting survival and preservation of the species that extends from exploratory and approaching responses facilitating social bonding to aggressive and avoidance responses aimed to protect and defend formed relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research provides a conceptual replication and theoretical extension of the mutual cyclical growth model. This model proposes that dependence promotes relationship commitment, which promotes pro-relationship behavior, which—when detected by partners—promotes partners' trust, which promotes partners' willingness to depend on the relationship. Prior research supports these links on a month-to-month basis, but romantic partners' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors may change on a day-to-day basis. The present research sought to replicate the model on a daily level, and to extend the model with an important potential moderator: individuals' attachment orientations. Results from a dyadic daily-report study of romantic couples replicated the links in the mutual cyclical growth model at the level of day-to-day fluctuations in partners' experiences; the links were especially strong for individuals high in attachment anxiety. This research provides insight into mechanisms through which close relationships develop and strengthen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies provide some evidence that recalling positive autobiographical memories can foster feelings of intimacy in social relationships. The present research aimed to extend this finding by examining the effects of negative relationship memories on current feelings of intimacy. In Study 1, 71 adults recalled either two positive or two negative events experienced with their partner. Intimacy (feelings of warmth, relationship closeness) was measured before and after remembering. Relationship closeness increased after recalling positive relationship memories, whereas feelings of warmth were reduced after the recall of negative relationship memories. In Study 2, 187 adults recalled two relationship conflicts and rated intimacy toward their partner (feelings of warmth, relationship closeness) before and after remembering. Replicating the findings of Study 1, we found feelings of warmth to be reduced after the recall of relationship conflicts. Relationship closeness was likely to decrease the more conflicts were considered personally significant and the more a person had used self-distraction to regulate their emotions during the conflict. Future research may identify personal characteristics that could explain why, for some people, the recall of negative relationship memories is hurtful, whereas it brings others closer to their partner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incremental advancements in technology present researchers with opportunities to examine and predict human behavior before the integration of technology into daily life. Previous studies have identified trends in both the design and reception of current social robotic technologies, including gender biases and social "othering", which may affect how humans interact with more advanced robotic technologies in the future. The aim of the current study was to explore whether preconceived beliefs about gender inequality, interest in casual sex, and social hierarchies would relate individuals' interest in engaging in platonic friendships ("robofriendship") or sexual relationships ("robosexuality") with hypothetical human-like robots. Two-hundred and twelve participants completed an online survey measuring gender, ambivalent sexism, social dominance orientation, and sociosexual orientation in relation to individuals' interest in both robofriendship and robosexuality. It was found that hostile sexism positively predicted interest in robosexuality, particularly for men (β =.16, b =.27, 95% CI [.03,.30], t (209) = 2.364, p =.019). Conversely, hostile sexism negatively predicted robofriendship, and significant interactions effects were found in that at lower levels of SDO, women maintained greater interest in robofriendship than men (β =.26, b =.54, 95% CI [.09,.99], t(208) = −2.235, p =.02). The current study provides preliminary evidence to suggest that preconceived beliefs about social hierarchy and gender inequality may impact romantic and platonic interactions between humans and robots. Limitations and future directions are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the resources of Trinitarian theology for conceiving of the relationship between divine action and the natural world. We begin with the core commitments of Trinitarian theology alongside common desiderata for divine action, namely a conception of reality that grants sufficient independence to creation to allow meaningful interaction with and from the Creator. I then examine this claim in the light of contrasting non-Trinitarian theistic approaches and argue that Trinitarian theology uniquely grounds a particular kind of motivated divine action that undergirds the value of volitional and nomic independence within a framework of mutuality in relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the concept of love and its revolutionary possibilities through the lens of wayfinding and the author's personal experiences. It discusses the significance of New Zealand's Matariki public holiday, which celebrates the Māori new year, and the author's homecoming to New Zealand. The article emphasizes the importance of rest, repair, awakening, and articulating a "next normal" in the process of futuring. It also highlights the need for decolonization and regeneration in geography and society. The author proposes the use of radical empathy and tracing love as a way to navigate and understand our relationships and the world around us. [Extracted from the article]

The focus of this two-part work is Love's enormous potential, as 'the force of all creation,' to empower humanity's transformation to a peaceful sustainable world. Such radical change requires the full spectrum of human faculties and proficiencies—viz, those of the intellect and those of the heart. Part One documents love's generative role in biopsychosocial function, and love's vital role in our psychic proficiencies—the powers of heart, mind, and spirit to shape reality. In Part Two, a quantum holographic theory describes how Love-held Will can induce change, through the psychoenergetic processes of psi-formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Part One (Bradley, 2024b), Love's ubiquitous power was documented—both for human biopsychosocial function, and for accessing higher consciousness and psychic proficiencies. Here, in Part Two, a quantum holographic account elucidates love's vital role in psychic interactions—viz, intuition and intention. Psi-formation—psychically induced change—is the power of mind through spirit to shape reality. The concepts of multiscale entanglement and oscillatory entrainment are developed to explain how instant nonlocal communication occurs and how focused intention—psi-formation—can change reality. Reformulation of Tiller's 'reaction equation' highlights Love's role in the relations of creation among Consciousness, Love, Energy, Information, and Matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Well-being Numerical Rating Scales (WB-NRSs) can be used to assess rapidly and accurately different types of well-being. However, the spiritual well-being scale showed slightly weaker psychometric properties. This study aimed to further investigate its suitability in measuring spiritual well-being. Participants (N = 270, age: M = 32.98; SD = 15.64; 67% females) were administered a questionnaire including spiritual well-being, gratitude, compassionate love, and personality traits measures. A network analysis (based on correlations) was used to display graphically the pattern of relationships among the measured constructs (i.e. the nomological net). Results provided evidence that the scale measures spiritual well-being as defined in the literature, that is, a component distinct from faith and compassionate love, but connected to meaning in life, quality of relationships, personality traits, and gratitude. These findings confirm the WB-NRSs is a psychometrically sound and easy-to-use tool with clear benefits for both research and clinical assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Love is a complex construct of undeniable importance for human beings and an area of research that has progressed over the past decades. The capacity to love, specifically, refers to the capacity for involvement, investment, and maintenance of a committed romantic relationship, resulting from complex developmental processes that begin in childhood and continue to be shaped throughout development. Despite its relevance, there is still little evidence of its relationships with indicators of positive human functioning. This study examines the link between the capacity to love and emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Furthermore, it delves into potential differences in the capacity to love based on life cycle stages (emerging adulthood and midlife) and gender. The research involved 535 participants, with 282 (52.7%) falling under the emerging adulthood category (18–25 years) and 253 (47.3%) classified as middle-aged adults (45–65 years). Multivariate variance analyses indicate emerging adults demonstrate a greater capacity to love in all dimensions except acceptance of loss, grief, and jealousy. Concerning gender, there were no significant differences. Prediction models indicate that age and acceptance of loss and grief are significant and positive predictors of all types of well-being, and basic trust is a significant and positive predictor of emotional well-being. Overall, this research sheds light on the vital role the capacity to love plays in human well-being and emphasizes the need for interventions that focus on nurturing and developing this aspect of human relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social progressions such as the feminist movement and technological advances may have influenced the way young adults perceive romantic relationships. Although long-term relationships are traditionally viewed favorably in society, short-term relationships are becoming more popular in recent years. It's important to understand the common perceptions of romance among young adults because it affects their partner choices and expectations. While experts can define the concepts of long-term and short-term relationships, we believe the most reliable method is to ask young adults directly. Therefore, we collected data from 229 self-reported British nationals aged between 18 and 33 (M = 19.66; SD = 2.72) to understand their perceptions of long-term and short-term romantic relationships. We asked them to write down the words or phrases that come to mind when they think of these concepts. Using the structural approach of the theory of social representation, we analyzed the values and norms of young British adults regarding these concepts. Based on our study, we observed four important things. Firstly, short-term relationships (STRs) are associated with "fun", "excitement", and "passion", while long-term relationships (LTRs) are associated with "love", "commitment", "trust", and "loyalty". Secondly, while sex is important in romantic relationships, it's only a peripheral component of STRs and not a significant factor in LTRs. Thirdly, both those in relationships and single individuals agree that "fling" and "passion" are primary aspects of STRs, but those in relationships tend to use the term "fun," while single individuals use "exciting" to describe STRs. Lastly, "love", "trust", and "commitment" are essential elements in LTRs for both single individuals and those in relationship. However, individuals in relationships also value loyalty as a critical aspect of romantic relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comparative Literature is the study of literary texts which are linguistically different. Comparative Indian literature is advocated by Indian comparatists to understand the unity that runs through the seemingly diversified kinds of literature of modern India. The chief objective of Indian comparative literature is to trace the similarities among the writers of various regional languages, and thereby equate their underlying similarity to Indianness which is an indispensable part of all Indian literature. Tagore and Meera are writers of modern poetry and are influenced by the pattern of Western poetry. Tagore’s Gitanjali and Meera’s Kanavukal+Karpanaikal=Kakitankal are composed in the same genre, prose poems. Also, the dominant idea in the texts, as has been asserted by many critics is love. This research article aims to ascertain the nature of parallel elements in the art of senior poet Tagore from Bengali and the later-day poet Meera from Tamil Nadu. The physical aspect of love that runs through Gitanjali is metaphysical and mystical. Tagore can present both male and female points of view in love. Meera’s Kanavukal+Karpanaikal=Kakitankal seems to glorify physical love. But it also contains much of spiritual elements. Abdul Kather, a Tamil poet and researcher states “Meera’s Kanavukal+Karpanaikal=Kakitankal reveals his devotion for his lady love.” (74). It shows that Meera is worshiping his ladylove as his God. This analysis reveals many parallels between Tagore and Meera. Both Tagore and Meera present the physical love between man and woman, and the sacred love between man and God, While the first category dominates in Meera, the second dominates in Tagore. In both the poems, ‘nayagan-nayagi bhava’ of worshiping God as lover and beloved is seen. It shows their longing for reunion with their Soul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper two Women of Color academics employ and blend Chicana Feminist Pláticas and Kitchen Table Talk methodologies to engage in a culturally rooted dialogue about the power of love in education. They explore their journeys towards studying love, love in praxis, and ultimately, argue that love is a practice for cultivating and sustaining our collective well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aimed to understand which character strengths are most important for people living with dementia and therefore which strengths-based psychological interventions could be most meaningful and acceptable. A participatory design, utilising Delphi methodology, was incorporated into an iterative three stage framework: (1) literature reviewed for Positive Psychology (PP) interventions and patient public involvement to define the character strengths; (2) modified Delphi (N = 10) identified which character strengths are most important for living with dementia; (3) focus groups (N = 14) explored which PP interventions are most acceptable and meaningful. Qualitative data from the focus groups was analysed using thematic analysis. Love, kindness and humour were deemed the most important character strengths for living with dementia. Qualitative data from the focus groups was captured in three superordinate themes: (1) lack of opportunity not capacity; (2) key considerations of PP interventions for people living with dementia; and (3) potential benefits of PP interventions. Love, kindness and humour come naturally to people with dementia, but people may lack social opportunities to use these strengths. Therefore, a PP intervention promoting positive emotion, social relationships and connection to one's values appears most meaningful and acceptable as this may provide a social context to use and maintain these strengths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of this two-part work is Love's enormous potential, as 'the force of all creation,' to empower humanity's transformation to a peaceful sustainable world. Such radical change requires the full spectrum of human faculties and proficiencies—viz, those of the intellect and those of the heart. Part One documents love's generative role in biopsychosocial function, and love's vital role in our psychic proficiencies—the powers of heart, mind, and spirit to shape reality. In Part Two, a quantum holographic theory describes how Love-held Will can induce change, through the psychoenergetic processes of psi-formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Ethical values are a guideline for behavior in certain situations. They take on particular importance in patient care. Ethical values depend on many factors including culture. The aim of this study is to compare the ethical values of nursing students. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used. A total of 463 students participated in the survey, including 191 from Poland and 272 from Turkiye. The study was conducted from April to June 2022. For the purposes of this study was used Ethical Values Scale (IEVS). The criteria for excluding participants from the study were nursing student status and consent to participate in the study. Results: The IEVE total score for all respondents was 68.20 and the median was 68. In the individual subscales: Love-Respect 34.76 (median 35), Justice-Honesty 21.29 (median 21) and Cooperation 12.14 (median 12). Polish students' total IEVS score average was 70.48 ± 6.81 and Turkish students' IEVS total score average was 66.61 ± 9.65. There is a statistically significant difference between the total score average on the IEVS of students from the two countries (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Students in both countries generally demonstrate high ethical standards. There are noticeable differences between the responses of students from Poland and Turkiye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research Highlights Harlow's seminal work on the nature of attachment focused on the importance of warm, responsive, and loving relationships in children's healthy development. While the need for love and care is arguably universal, the ways in which these emotions are expressed can vary across cultural contexts. We examined how Chinese American parents’ expressions of love were associated with children's attachment security. A total of 110 Chinese American immigrant parent–child dyads (children 7–11 years old, 49% girls) participated in 3‐min conversations in which parents were instructed to communicate love and care. Proposition‐level analyses in speech (total 8825 propositions) identified three types of affection: training (guan and chiao shun); relational affection (qin); and validation (acceptance and encouragement of child's own expression of emotion, thoughts, and behaviors). Higher training was observed in parents with lower American orientation and lower income. Higher relational affection was observed in parents with lower income. Higher validation was observed in parents with higher income. Using path analyses, training and validation were found to be positively associated with children's attachment security beyond parenting styles. Effects of parents’ relational affection were moderated by children's American orientation. Results demonstrate how immigrant parents draw on multiple cultural scripts to express love and care. These findings expand traditional concepts of parental love in immigrant families and illustrate how bicultural expressions of love can shape attachment security in middle childhood. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at https://youtu.be/HqUfIDxkFsE Analyses of parent‐child discussions identified three parental affection styles (i.e., training, relational affection, and validation) as expressions of love and care in Chinese American immigrant families. Training and validation were positively associated with children's attachment security. Relational affection was associated with lower attachment security for children with higher American cultural orientation, suggesting the effects of parent–child expressions of love are shaped by acculturation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People can be moved and touched by exceptional closeness between people or by outstanding willpower. We investigated the causal effect of these feelings on motivations. We based our research on the previously identified phenomenon that feelings of being moved are stronger in unfavourable circumstances (e.g. psychological closeness after conflict, high achievement against all odds). In two studies in the US (N1 = 136) and in Germany (N2 = 161), we independently varied context (love vs. willpower) and circumstances (favourable vs. unfavourable) in short stories and assessed feelings of being moved as well as the motivation to show love and the motivation to show willpower after each story. In both contexts and consistent across the two studies, unfavourable circumstances elicited stronger motivations to show love as well as stronger motivations to show willpower. Multilevel mediation modelling revealed that these effects were mediated by feelings of being moved. This indicates that feelings of being moved enhance pro-social as well as achievement-related motivations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper enters historical spaces to find the relationship between accounting, children, and education. Researchers use a systematic literature review to explore all references about child accounting. References are not limited to space and time in order to open up transdisciplinary opportunities in accounting research. History tells us that child accounting has existed since 1862 and is still practiced today. Child accounting has the potential to handle the human soul. Unfortunately, child accounting only covers part of a child’s life, only at school. In fact, careful handling of children’s mental health requires a holistic understanding of children’s lives not only at school but also at home. Home is the first place where children live and receive love from their parents. Not only that life outside of school must also continue to be carried out by parents as the main holders of child accounting. Finally, the new child accounting agenda finds new relationships not only between accounting, children, and education but also with love. These four things are intertwined to form a better civilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Idiot is structured on the symmetry between Parfyon Rogozhin and Prince Myshkin. A dominant, patronising character versus a Christ-like figure and a pathological man of compassionate nature. However, it is possible that Dostoevsky himself did not completely grasp the ethical dilemma inherent in the narration. Rather than considering the climactic final as an expression of moral or neurotic failure, we shall consider Rogozhin's and Myshkin's viewpoint as the embodiment of Kierkegaard's dichotomy between esthetic and ethical life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article builds on previous literary scholarship to analyse the social and publication history of the enormously successful Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters published in the voice of an anonymous Portuguese nun to a French officer. Although the letters were based on an ancient model, this article suggests that their references to contemporary gendered constructions of biology and love, especially for enclosed women, were successfully used by publishers to commercialise a historically recurring gender binary of heterosexual love: men were rejected and women were abandoned. The popularity of the text was such that it entrenched notions of women's helplessness in matters of the heart for almost three centuries. This article argues that the Lettres portugaises' success was as much the result of the text's literary qualities as it was of the canny paratextual strategies deployed by seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century publishers to sell the book, its sequels and its imitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to explore sex and fear in the therapy room through a Sartrean lens. It aims to engage with his ideas on love, desire and sexuality as a response to Heidegger's ontology, and to ask whether we can find a link between fear and our relationship to freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the letters and the character of Frances 'Fanny' Brawne together as a model for criticism at the present time, as well as a meaningful indication of how criticism was practiced by laypeople in the Romantic period. Focusing on Keats's great love affair rather than on Keats himself, or on Keats to the exclusion of his interlocuters, I describe the erotic conflict between Brawne and the poet as a form of agonistic engagement between writer and critic–the one tragic in impulse, the other more comic. Toward the end of the essay, I ask how conflict of this kind may be understood, in Stanley Cavell's terms, not as the ugly underside of love but as one of its most significant expressions, a way of keeping up (in Cavell's words) 'the conversation love demands'. Throughout, the essay queries the relation between criticism and love, and how that relation might contest contemporary thinking around affect and pleasure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current era of exploring changing sexual behavior, promoting and supporting the diversity of pleasure, the sexual health and rights of sexual minorities are getting more public attention, among which the "Fourth Love" emerges as a distinctive group within the framework of Chinese culture. Fourth Love refers to a loving relationship between couples of the opposite sex where the woman assumes the traditional male gender role and the man assumes the traditional female gender role, and always accompanied by a special pattern of sexual behavior that women penetrate the men's anus using their fingers or a device. This theoretical article begins by introducing and discussing the historical background, core concept "Fourth Love" and its related categories. Subsequently, we start from Judith Butler's gender performativity theory and interpret the Fourth Love from the perspective of "de-naturalization" and argue that the gender performativity theory provides a reasonable explanation for the gender characteristics (female top and male bottom) of the Fourth Love. Finally, we posit a discussion and outlook on the survival and development of the Fourth Love in the fields of sexual health, sexual pleasure, sexual right, and family and marriage, and calls for more understanding and psychological support from the society for them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate around epistemic partiality in friendship presents us with several tough philosophical puzzles. One of these has been articulated in two objections to the view that friendship can require epistemic partiality on the grounds it is incompatible with the nature of friendship. The first, owed to Crawford, argues that you should not treat your friends with epistemic partiality because your beliefs about your friends should be responsive to the facts about them, and epistemic partiality is incompatible with this demand. The second, owed to Mason, draws on a Murdochian account of love to argue that loving relationships—such as friendship—are 'epistemically rich states', which means that they are constituted by a drive towards ever greater and more intimate knowledge of our loved ones. In this paper, I shall argue that epistemic partiality may indeed limit what we know about our friends, but not in ways that diminish the quality of our love for them, and certainly not in ways that block us from being friends with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are few studies of impacts of arts on recovery in schizphrenia, on audience mood and social connection. We developed a pilot evaluation of opera performances in a university setting on Elyn Saks' journey from psychosis, teaching law and falling in love, coupled with pre-opera workshop on approaches to resilience. Using surveys, primary outcomes were pre and post affect (PANAS-X positive, negative; visual "affect grid" touchscreen for affective valence and arousal) and social connectedness with secondary outcomes of increasing understanding, reducing stigma and willingness to socialize or serve persons with mental illness. Of 107 live and 117 online attendees, 64 completed pre, 24 post, and 22 both surveys. Respondent characteristics were similar for those with pre and pre and post surveys: average age mid 50's, half female, 10% sexual minority, half White/Caucasian, 13% Hispanic/Latino, 11% Black/African American and 20% Asian; of 22 with pre and post, 9 (41%) were providers. There were significant post–pre increases in positive affect (PANAS-X) and arousal (visual grid) and social connectedness (Cohen's d = 0.82 to 1.24, each p <.001); and willingness to socialize with someone with schizophrenia (d = 0.68, p =.011). In this pilot evaluation of opera in a university auditorium, despite small sample sizes, there were significant post–pre increases in audience positive affect and social connection, which could reflect selection (those with positive response completing surveys) or may suggest that arts events promote well-being and connection, issues for future larger studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author finds that, as a Marxist of the postmodern kind, Jack Amariglio's genuine commitment to engaging with different frameworks has enabled much-needed conversations in economics, a field dominated for so long by a scientific-objectivist posture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jack Amariglio was the founding editor of Rethinking MARXISM (as it was then typographically rendered) in 1988. He held the post for nine years, followed by many more years on the editorial board. During his nine years of editorship, nothing appeared in RM under Jack's name alone. His work was deeply embedded in a collective endeavor and can only be understood in relation to the others in the collective; at the same time, Jack's work was an attractive force that did much to hold the collective together. Simultaneously, and for an additional two decades beyond his editorship of RM, Jack was a member of the Merrimack College faculty. In both of these roles, Jack was an exemplar of a claim from an early issue of RM. The editors' introduction in volume 1, number 2, invited readers to quote the Herr Keuner stories by Bertolt Brecht, newly translated by Lee Baxandall: "Love," wrote Brecht-as-Keuner, "is the art of producing something with the capabilities of the other." This sort of love has been Jack's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses a drama-based method to illustrate the responses of healthcare and legal systems to women experiencing coercive control. This approach involved writing a play using the first-person narrative voice of a victim-survivor. We presented the play at the Stop Domestic Violence Conference (Gold Coast, Australia) in 2021. The central character, 'Kate', provided an embodied performance that enabled the conference participants to see, feel and understand experiences of coercive control from a personal perspective. We followed the trajectory of coercive control from the beginning of an intimate relationship to the time of separation. We showed how the process of coercive control escalates from love bombing, reproductive coercion, isolation, and technology-facilitated abuse until a point of police intervention. As Kate told her story, the conference audience witnessed the barriers and challenges faced by survivors of coercive control, and the emotional, financial, and psychological impacts that are intensified in geographically remote environments. They watched Kate navigate health and other systems meant to help women experiencing domestic and family violence, but that ultimately failed to deliver. Finally, the drama-based approach allowed us to present a feminist embodiment of coercive control and an innovative method for communicating inter-disciplinary research findings on domestic abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to analyze Christopher Marlow's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". The poem was interpreted stylistically from the choice of words, sentence arrangements, and the poetic devices used by the writer to present his thoughts to the audience. The literary devices included in the analysis were symbolism, imagery, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and other sound devices like alliteration, consonance, assonance, and rhyme. Moreover, the study also provided an analysis of the structure and theme of the poem. By conducting this research, the researchers were able to shed light on the literary approaches, sound devices such as symbolism, imagery, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and other sound devices like alliteration, consonance, assonance, and rhyme, hidden meanings, and artistic worth of the Poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]