Love or desire?
Why can’t I lose weight? - The psychology of overeating
Why can’t I lose weight? - The psychology of overeating

Your eating habits are a projection of your attitude to life, your state of mind and your emotional needs. It is very common to feel hunger when you’re actually feeling ignored, unloved, unwanted or neurotic but you must know that, in these cases, your desire for food is not rooted in unsatisfied physical needs. Other reasons for overeating might be boredom, heart ache, stress, frustration or a feeling of emptiness inside.

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Attraction is a stepping stone
Attraction is a stepping stone

All species have their unique signals for mate attraction. We call them courtship displays. Dolphins dance around their mates in order to exhibit their desire, great crested grebes present their mates with fish. But what about us? What do we do when someone catches our eye?

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The science of desire
The science of desire

A denim company used the slogan „I believe in love at first touch” in the early 2000s for one of their ads and there is more truth to that sentence than one might first think. Attraction, desire, all consuming love and passion, workdays spent together in bed, steamy messages, then losing yourself in crying for hours on end, unbearable pain – what is common in all of these?

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