The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks · 8 Mar 2011 · 487pp · 151,810 words
meet for lunch. He pretended to be interested in the job, but all sorts of romantic fantasies were already burbling in his mind. CHAPTER 13 LIMERENCE HAROLD AND ERICA HAD THEIR FIRST MEETING AT A STARBUCKS, where she had arranged a job interview. She made sure to get there first, so
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
by Rachel Bloom · 17 Nov 2020 · 179pp · 49,805 words
be fair, it’ll be a mix of this curse and all of the natural causes of romantic obsession. See, romantic obsession, also known as ‘limerence’ as coined by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov, naturally feeds off the thrill of the chase, so anything with a ‘forbidden’ element is especially appealing
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
-riven Dart still wasn’t fixed. I was broke and grounded, living in a house with someone else’s girlfriend, haunted by the ghosts of limerence. I needed a next step, so I started to explore the world beyond Caltech. L.A. was a cypher. From the moment I arrived in
City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
by Catie Marron · 11 Apr 2016 · 195pp · 58,462 words
, which is unique on the continent. In most other regions, colonial powers deliberately avoided large gathering spaces to dissuade locals from assembling and protesting. LISA LIMER What particularly engages me about the square is how the multifunctional character allows the complexities and nuances of the urban environment to unfold. In my
Ancestral Night
by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Mar 2019 · 596pp · 163,351 words
liked drama. And I knew it, on some level, and I ignored it. I chose to trust, because my hormones were surging, and I was limerent and infatuated, and I wanted with all my heart and soul to believe. In us. In her. So once I found out about the wife
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
by Gary Chapman · 1 Jan 1990 · 152pp · 49,529 words
. Scott Peck and psychologist Dorothy Tennov, have concluded that the in-love experience should not be called “love” at all. Dr. Tennov coined the word limerance for the in-love experience in order to distinguish that experience from what she considers real love. Dr. Peck concludes that the falling-in-love
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler · 29 May 2013 · 298pp · 84,394 words
he wouldn’t be back, but she hadn’t believed him. Like everything else he’d said, she passed this under the microscope of obsessional limerence. I was his sister. Of course, he’d be back, if only to see me. What had he meant when he’d said she made
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams · 12 Sep 2018 · 1,132pp · 156,379 words
). Ratcheting up the ratchet: On the evolution of cumulative culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2405–2415. Tennov, D. (1979). Love and limerence: The experience of being in love. Lanham, ML: Scarborough House. Thomas, A. G., & Stewart-Williams, S. (2018). Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
by Tarleton Gillespie · 25 Jun 2018 · 390pp · 109,519 words
Purinton, “Facebook . . . Apparently a Safe Harbor for Misogyny,” Eclectic Effervescence, May 12, 2010, http://eclecticeffervescence.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebookapparently-safe-harbor-for.html. 49Eric Limer, “Facebook Took Down This Picture Because It Thinks Elbows Are Boobs,” Gizmodo. November 26, 2011, http://gizmodo.com/5963326/facebook-took-down-this-picture-because
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by Max Boot · 9 Jan 2018 · 972pp · 259,764 words
confidante once again, but the letter he wrote to her aboard the airplane did not reflect the giddy infatuation that he had exhibited while in limerence almost six years earlier aboard a troopship. In lieu of the ardent expressions of love he had once sent to his “darling Patching,” he now
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
by Melissa Broder · 15 Mar 2016 · 140pp · 47,093 words
already taken): a love story. I wanted to build a fire with our shadow selves and burn there or be erased by the narcotic of limerence when I turned your face into a fire: a love story. I don’t even masturbate to you anymore because it’s too sad: a