ABSTRACT
Fisher (this volume) has written a provocative chapter about romantic love and rejection. She brings into her writing work from a number of fields to explain the origins and manifestations of romance and the consequent risks of rejection. Her major contribution in this chapter is her ability to lead us to focus our attention on the neuroscience of social emotions. In our efforts to measure and study love and romance, we often focus on subjective interpretations recorded in interviews or surveys, without consideration for underlying biological experiences. Fisher reminds us that this focus on cognitive constructions of the emotions and motivations for sex and social bonding provides an incomplete view.
