Romance
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Romance and romantic love encompass a number of ideas about love, which are interrelated for historical and cultural reasons:
Romeo and Juliet, by Frank Dicksee, considered to be the archetypal romantic couple, depicting the play's iconic balcony scene
"Crystallization" was coined by the 19th-century French writer Stendhal to refer to the tendency of a person in love to overemphasize the positive aspects of their loved one and overlook the negative ("love is blind"). This idealization is now considered positive illusions, and significant scientific evidence has shown that it contributes to relationship satisfaction, long-term well-being and decreased risk for relationship discontinuation.
Aucassin and Nicolette, by Marianne Stokes
Infatuated love essentially thrives under intermittent reinforcement—also the mechanic a slot machine relies on.
Love
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Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of th
Romance
…Romance and romantic love encompass a number of ideas about love, which are interrelated for historical and cultural reasons: passionate feelings of attraction—a mental state of "being in love", with focused attention…
Fraternal love (Prehispanic sculpture from 250 to 900 CE, of Huastec origin). Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Pair of Lovers. 1480–1485
Grandmother and grandchild in Sri Lanka
Wall of Love on Montmartre in Paris: "I love you" in 250 languages, by calligraphist Fédéric Baron and artist Claire Kito (2000)