Love is confusing. People in the U.S. Google the word “love” about 1.2 million times a month. Roughly a quarter of those searches ask “what is love” or request a “definition of love.” What is all this ...

We think about love on Valentine’s Day more than other days, don’t we? Maybe not? Perhaps we think about cards with red hearts, and chocolates, and flowers to buy for our romantic partner. But is it ...

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love,” wrote the Czech writer Franz Kafka to his lover, Milena, in 1920. In other dispatches, he grows more desperate: “I miss ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

Love can take countless forms — romantic, platonic, everlasting, fleeting and even heartbreaking. Some believe love is a feeling, others insist it’s a choice and some don’t believe in it at all. I’m ...

With all the toxic dating trends out there, it’s always encouraging to learn of a lighthearted, honest approach to dating. You know, one that doesn’t emotionally harm or mislead another person, but ...

Love is a complex, not well-understood emotion that can occur for people at different rates. Scientists have developed a model for understanding love that includes four fundamental components: ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Neuroscience tells us that love is caused by ...