“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love,” wrote the Czech writer Franz Kafka to his lover, Milena, in 1920. In other dispatches, he grows more desperate: “I miss ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Neuroscience tells us that love is caused by ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

If I asked you to tell me what love is, what would you say? I am at a conference for The Love Consortium, an organization formed with the intention of increasing our understanding of love and social ...

For centuries, romantics have turned to musicians, artists, writers and philosophers in their quest to define one of humankind’s most complex, and arguably critical, emotions. Neuroscientist Zoe ...

This is Part 2 of a series on narcissism. (Go to Part 1, Part 3) Part 1 of this series visited an astonishing psychoanalytic perspective that defines narcissism as a distortion of reality that, in its ...

Love can take countless forms — romantic, platonic, everlasting, fleeting and even heartbreaking. Some believe love is a feeling, others insist it’s a choice and some don’t believe in it at all. I’m ...

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