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Ethnopharmacology of Love
2018
Background: Elixirs conferring eternal youth or inducing amatory and erotic attraction have been searched for without success. Lovesickness is a widespread affliction resulting from unrequited love and/or the impossibility for physical and emotional union. The symptoms are reflections of altered dopamine, serotonin, noradrenaline, testosterone and cortisol levels and range from frenzy and intrusive thinking to despair and depression, sharing traits with the neurochemistry of addiction and compulsive behavior disorder. Although it can seriously impact the quality of life, lovesickness is currently not considered in official disease classification systems. Consequently, no official therapeuti…
Neurobiological signature of intimacy in anorexia nervosa
2019
Background Intimacy and psychosexual development represent core problems of anorexia nervosa (AN). Experiential and neurobiological evidence however is scarce. Material and methods Thirty-one female AN patients were compared with 35 non-patients (NP) and 22 recovered participants (REC) by using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants viewed pictures of couples in intimate relationships and control stimuli. Results AN patients experienced intimate stimuli with lower valence and dominance. AN showed decreased activation of parietal cortices. NP decreased the prefrontal cortex response, which AN patients did not. REC participants did not differ from NP on a behavioural level, thoug…
Geometry of Quadrangles in Almqvist’s The Queen’s Tiara
2018
Quadrangles are repeatedly used in construction of scenes in Swedish author C. J. L. Almqvist’s novel The Queen’s Tiara. They limit and frame views. Repeating these structures creates connections between scenes. They form in relations between characters. Several quadrangular structures form around one main character called Tintomara, when she involuntarily attracts characters that fall in love in her. Also, quadrangles inside and beside each other are visible in scenes. Almqvist presented these forms in the elementary geometry textbook he published a year before this novel. peerReviewed
Antecedentes y consecuencias del Amor a la marca deportiva 2.0
2018
En esta Tesis Doctoral se indagará el comportamiento de los fanáticos de un equipo de fútbol, con la finalidad de avanzar en la investigación científica sobre el estudio de las acciones que los individuos manifiestan no sólo en la vida cotidiana y tangible, sino también en el espacio paralelo de internet, mediante el efecto boca-oído electrónico. Para ello se realizó un estudio que tiene como propósito identificar los antecedentes del amor a la marca y comprobar si existe una influencia positiva significativa en el comportamiento de los consumidores en entornos offline y online. Esta tesis plantea tres objetivos: identificar el rol de las asociaciones de marca en el amor de marca, analizar …
Amor odit inertes (Ars 2, 229): Mobilità didascalica e staticità elegiaca
2005
Un'analisi della precettistica contenuta in Ars 2, 223-250 sulla 'dinamicità' dell'innamorato, letta come voluto rovesciamento, dall'interno, delle categorie spaziali elegiache The precepts of Ars 2, 223-250 on the lover's 'dynamic' attitude are read as a conscious reversal, from within, of the elegiac spatial cathegories.
'Ineptiae' da commedia: tra Plauto e Terenzio
2015
In de oratore cicero affirms that whoever acts inadequately to the times, to the places and to the people behaves like an ineptus. in the comic plots there is a special link between love and ineptia, stressed primarily by the sweetheart’s inability to control his behaviour and especially his words. this survey focuses in particular on the Plautus’ Mercator and on the terence’s Eunuchus.
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
2021
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg’s Triangular Love Scale – STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were based on a sample of 7332 participants from 25 countries (from all inhabited continents). We tested configural invariance, metric invariance, and scalar invariance, all of which confirmed the cultural universality of the theoretical construct of love …
Ai confini dell’etica: la Teoria dell’amore e del libero arbitrio
2021
Dai suoi studi dedicati alla Divina Commedia (vol. XIX/2), Romano Guardini ci propone un’analisi dell’etica dantesca, vale a dire dell’architettura di valori che Dante pose a reggere i regni dell’aldilà, e che dall’aldilà disvela il corretto ordine dell’universo e l’essenza propria della persona. A condizione dell’agire etico v’è il valore della libertà, l’umana facoltà di scelta che in vita incontra il vincolo della responsabilità: la persona libera è responsabile poiché e finché nella vita terrena decide di sé. Il senso della “Teoria dell’amore e del libero arbitrio” che Guardini scorge come nucleo dell’etica dantesca è quello di una libertà che attratta dal valore -e dai valori- ad essi …
Dalle Cronache del mal d’amore al ciclo dell’Amica geniale: continuità ed evoluzione nella narrativa di Elena Ferrante
2019
The paper analyzes the whole narrative production of Elena Ferrante, emphasizing its unity and cohesion. Cohesion coexists with discontinuity: the publication of My Brilliant Friend marks an inventive turning point and reveals new strategies. But it’s even remarkable Ferrante’s predilection for a narrative in which «the flow of storytelling that despite its density manages to sweep you away».
Co-evolution between trust in teachers and higher education toward digitally-rich learning environments
2017
Based on a powerful notion that the quality of higher education is crucial for innovation in digital economy and that such quality is subject to a conception of trust in teachers to deliver good education and advancement of information and communication technology (ICT), the dynamism of co-evolution between them was analyzed. Using a unique dataset representing the above system consisting of the rate of trust in teachers providing good education in the context of quality of education and their social status, of the level of higher education and the state of ICT advancement toward digitally-rich learning environments, an empirical numerical analysis of 20 countries was attempted. These count…