Body maps of loves

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21591705
AutoresPärttyli Rinne (0000-0003-1764-1712, Aalto University, autor de correspondencia), Mikke Tavast (0000-0003-0671-5755, Aalto University), Enrico Glerean (0000-0003-0624-675X, Aalto University), Mikko Sams (0000-0002-1992-484X, Aalto University)
Año2025
Volumen38
Número4
Páginas1453-1475
Fecha de publicación2025-05-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2023.2252464
OpenAlexW4386458965
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas48

Love is an essential biological, psychological, sociological, and religious phenomenon. Using various conceptual models, philosophers have often distinguished between different types of love, such as self-love, romantic love, friendship love, love of God, and neighborly love. Psychologists and neuroscientists on the other hand have thus far focused predominantly on understanding the emotions and behavioral and neural mechanisms associated with romantic love and parental love. We do not yet know how the models construed by philosophers are related to actual experiences of love, and to which extent they are merely nominal creations connecting phenomena that in fact have little to do with each other. We lack empirical knowledge of how different types of love are experienced as embodied feelings, and how these experiences are related to one another. Here we distinguished between 27 different types of love. Using self-report methods, we measured 1) how subjective feelings of different types of love are topographically embodied; 2) how different types of love are associated with self-reported emotional valence, strength of the bodily and mental experience, association with touch, time elapsed since last experienced, and controllability; and 3) how similar different types of love feel. Our study provides the first mapping of embodied experiences associated with different types of love. The results show that the subjective feelings associated with the love types form a continuum from strongly to weakly felt loves

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Falling in love · Feeling · Friendship · Philosophy of love · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Media Influence and Health · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology