Tag: Love

  • Arts & Culture

    If loving you is wrong – let’s explore the ethics

    Assistant Professor Quinn White studies the ethics of love and relationships.

    5–7 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    ‘Happiness scholar’ cites three ways to start healing rifts

    In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.

    13–19 minutes
    Illustration of two people looking at each other.
  • Campus & Community

    Matchmaker, matchmaker put me in your algorithm

    After 25 Valentine’s Days, Datamatch, a student-run online matchmaking service that pairs Harvard students for a date, is going nationwide.

    3–5 minutes
    Computer screen with lines connecting buildings.
  • Health

    The love lives of fruit flies

    Harvard study reveals how the neurobiology of fruit fly courtship can help illuminate understanding of human disorders of motivation.

    5–7 minutes
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  • Health

    When love and science double date

    They suggest that couples share goals and aspirations, stay curious about each other, and, for pity’s sake, go out once in a while.

    7–10 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Love in the crosshairs

    A panel of marriage counselors and negotiators tells an audience of Harvard Law students how to use negotiation skills in their romantic relationships.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Playing the ‘envelope game’

    Harvard researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind model, dubbed the “envelope game,” that can help researchers to understand not only why humans evolved to be cooperative but why people evolved to cooperate in a principled way.

    6–8 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    On a date, with everyone

    Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights.

    2–4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    All for love

    In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Gazette partnered with the Woodberry Poetry Room in selecting a poem fitting of the holiday devoted to love.

    1–2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Can love be taught?

    Richard Weissbourd discusses whether love can be effectively taught in schools, reflects on the state of sex-ed, and examines where love is best modeled in the media.

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Love, it’s a battlefield

    With the approach of Valentine’s Day, Harvard experts discuss expectations and students reveal their plans.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    He wrote the book of love

    A neurologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School ponders love and its complexities in his latest book, “What to Read on Love, Not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science.”

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Easy like Lionel Richie

    Singer Lionel Richie visits Harvard to receive the Harvard Foundation’s inaugural Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award, dining with undergraduates and recalling his career.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Love life

    A new Harvard study shows that ratios between males and females affect human longevity.

    3–4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    What comes after

    Joanna Klink, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in the English Department, is out with a new book chronicling a failed relationship.

    2–3 minutes