bims-chumac 2023-03-26 papers

Issue of 2023–03–26
three papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society

Fam Process. 2023 Mar 20. e12873

What makes people feel loved? An exploratory study on core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships.

Mengya Xia, Yi Chen, Shannon Dunne.

With research long focusing on distinct characteristics of different love types, little is known about love as a general feeling across relationship contexts. To explore the core elements of love as perceived by laypeople and whether these elements weigh differently in different relationships, grounded theory was used to analyze open-ended responses from 468 individuals about their feeling loved in family, romantic, and friend relationships. Results indicated that the feeling of love is an interpersonal process in which one receives positive responsiveness from the other and experiences an authentic connection with the other, consistently across conditions and time (i.e., in a sense of stability); three core elements were shared across family, romantic, and friend relationships. Chi-square independence tests revealed differentiated weights for love elements in three relationships, which corresponded to the prototypical love definition in family, romantic, and friend relationships. Findings suggested an integrated theoretical conceptualization of love as a shared feeling and asset across relationships, which provided important insights on love conceptualization, assessment, and study design, as well as implications for the treatment of dysfunctional relationships, best practices in daily interpersonal interactions, and improvement in intervention and therapy.

Keywords: family relationships; friend relationships; grounded theory; love; mixed-method; romantic relationships

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12873

Front Psychol. 2023 ;14 1088591

Jie Liu, Yanyan Zhang.

This study investigated singles' similarity preferences concerning their ideal partner's personality traits, physical attractiveness, and social resources, as well as potential moderators (fear of being single and mate value) and mediators (forecasted satisfaction). With 1,014 Chinese singles, we found that singles preferred their ideal partner to share similarities in the HEXACO traits, physical attractiveness, and social resources, and they preferred higher similarity in Honesty-Humility and Openness to Experience. Fear of being single, mate value, and forecasted satisfaction did not affect similarity preferences concerning Honesty-Humility and Openness to Experience but had some mixed influence over similarity preferences for other features.

Keywords: HEXACO model; attraction; ideal partner preference; personality traits; similarity

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1088591

Sci Rep. 2023 Mar 21. 13(1): 4589

Evaluation of the attractiveness of lips with different volumes after filling with hyaluronic acid.

Paula Martins de Queiroz Hernandez, Paula Cotrin, Fabricio Pinelli Valarelli, Ricardo Cesar Gobbi de Oliveira, Carina Gisele Costa Bispo, Karina Maria Salvatore Freitas, Renata Cristina Oliveira, Dra Paula Cotrin.

To compare the attractiveness of lips with different volumes after filling in the view of laypersons, dentists, and specialists. The sample comprised close-up frontal and lateral photographs of the lips of 16 women who underwent lip filling procedure with hyaluronic acid and was divided into 2 groups. Group 1: eight women with thinner lips at pretreatment. Group 2: eight female patients with thicker lips at pretreatment. Photographs from before and 10 days after lip filling were used to assess attractiveness randomly displayed in a Google Forms questionnaire and then sent via a messaging app to the evaluators. The evaluators' groups were general dentists, dentists with degrees in facial aesthetics, and laypersons. The attractiveness was evaluated with scores from 0 to 10 (0: least attractive and 10 the greatest). T-tests were used for the statistical comparisons. The group with thinner lips showed significantly improved attractiveness after filling. The group with thicker lips showed a worsening attractiveness after filling. The group with thicker lips had significantly higher attractiveness scores than those with thinner lips. There was no significant difference in the preference between men and women. The group of laypersons was more rigorous, giving significantly lower lip attractiveness scores. Thinner lips showed a significant improvement in attractiveness after filling. Thicker lips showed a worsening of the attractiveness score after filling. Before and after filling, thicker lips had significantly higher attractiveness scores than thinner lips.Clinical relevance: The amount of fillers applied to each patient must be individually evaluated.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31332-1