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The modern concept of the split attraction model was coined by the asexual and aromantic communities to better describe their identities within the community and to others. The term likely emerged around 2015, though the concept of split attractions had been in use since the origination of the term aromantic in 2005.
The law of attraction is the New Thought spiritual belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life. [1] [2] The belief is based on the idea that people and their thoughts are made from "pure energy" and that like energy can attract like energy, thereby allowing people to improve their health, wealth, or personal relationships.
Splitting was first described by Ronald Fairbairn in his formulation of object relations theory in 1952; it begins as the inability of the infant to combine the fulfilling aspects of the parents (the good object) and their unresponsive aspects (the unsatisfying object) into the same individuals, instead seeing the good and bad as separate. In ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Interpersonal attraction, as a part of social psychology, is the study of the attraction between people which leads to the development of platonic or romantic relationships. It is distinct from perceptions such as physical attractiveness , and involves views of what is and what is not considered beautiful or attractive.
Genetic sexual attraction is a hypothesis that attraction may be a product of genetic similarities. [ 1 ] : 200 While there is scientific evidence for the position, [ 1 ] : 200 some commentators regard the hypothesis as pseudoscience . [ 2 ]
Passionate love is a state of attraction and increased preoccupation with a specific person and may be described as obsessive love or infatuation. [10] Passionate love is defined as "a state of intense longing for union with another", [1] and may also be commonly described as being in-love. This intense feeling is characterized by the ...
The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the law of attraction, which claims that thought alone can influence objective circumstances within one's life.