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    Impersonal love refers to love of objects, principles, or goals rather than between people. Examples include compassionate workers loving their cause through altruism and convictions. People can also love material objects, animals, or activities through bonding or identification. Interpersonal love refers to love between humans, which is a stronger sentiment than liking. Unrequited love describes unreciprocated feelings of love. Interpersonal love is closely tied to relationships between family, friends, and couples. Throughout history, philosophy and religion speculated most on love, while psychology has increasingly studied it scientifically by examining its biological, psychological, and social aspects.

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    Impersonal love refers to love of objects, principles, or goals rather than between people. Examples include compassionate workers loving their cause through altruism and convictions. People can also love material objects, animals, or activities through bonding or identification. Interpersonal love refers to love between humans, which is a stronger sentiment than liking. Unrequited love describes unreciprocated feelings of love. Interpersonal love is closely tied to relationships between family, friends, and couples. Throughout history, philosophy and religion speculated most on love, while psychology has increasingly studied it scientifically by examining its biological, psychological, and social aspects.

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    Impersonal love refers to love of objects, principles, or goals rather than between people. Examples include compassionate workers loving their cause through altruism and convictions. People can also love material objects, animals, or activities through bonding or identification. Interpersonal love refers to love between humans, which is a stronger sentiment than liking. Unrequited love describes unreciprocated feelings of love. Interpersonal love is closely tied to relationships between family, friends, and couples. Throughout history, philosophy and religion speculated most on love, while psychology has increasingly studied it scientifically by examining its biological, psychological, and social aspects.

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    Impersonal love

    People can be said to love an object, principle, or goal to which they are deeply committed and
    greatly value. For example, compassionate outreach and volunteer workers' "love" of their cause
    may sometimes be born not of interpersonal love but impersonal love, altruism, and strong spiritual
    or political convictions.[15] People can also "love" material objects, animals, or activities if they invest
    themselves in bonding or otherwise identifying with those things. If sexual passion is also involved,
    then this feeling is called paraphilia.[16] A common principle that people say they love is life itself.

    Interpersonal love

    Interpersonal love refers to love between human beings. It is a much more potent sentiment than a
    simple liking for a person. Unrequited love refers to those feelings of love that are not reciprocated.
    Interpersonal love is most closely associated with interpersonal relationships.[15] Such love might
    exist between family members, friends, and couples. There are also a number of psychological
    disorders related to love, such as erotomania.

    Throughout history, philosophy and religion have done the most speculation on the phenomenon of
    love. In the 20th century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. In recent
    years, the sciences of psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have added to the
    understanding the concept of love.

    Biological basis

    Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst.[17] Helen
    Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly
    overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust is the feeling of sexual desire; romantic
    attraction determines what partners mates find attractive and pursue, conserving time and energy by
    choosing; and attachment involves sharing a home, parental duties, mutual defense, and in humans
    involves feelings of safety and security.[18] Three distinct neural circuitries, including
    neurotransmitters, and three behavioral patterns, are associated with these three romantic styles. [18]

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