Researchers across disciplines have attempted to define, categorize, and measure the elusive experience of love.

Most everyone has experienced near instant attraction to someone else, whether of a social or sexual nature, but few are able to pin down exactly why they felt that attraction. Based on two ...

Research defines interpersonal attraction as "the strength of our liking or loving for another person." Attraction is when you look at someone from across a crowded room and lock eyes. It's when ...

However, the reality seems –a little–different. The interpersonal attraction between two people reflects an affective assessment made by an individual with regard to another person ...

Citations: Finkel, Eli J., P. Eastwick. 2015. Interpersonal attraction: In search of a theoretical Rosetta stone. APA Handbook of personality and social psychology ...

and interpersonal attraction toward, a similar versus dissimilar target,” the researchers concluded. In other words, people were using each single issue, and their feelings about it, as a pivot ...

We have all seen the stereotypes in the movies and on television, of the beautiful brainiac. From movies like Legally Blond to popular books and sitcoms, female intelligence is portrayed in a ...