Love

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

A boy poses with a pillow shaped like lips on sale for Valentine's Day in Yopougon, Ivory Coast, on February 13th, 2018.

#LoveIsLove has united members and supporters of the LGBT community after Orlando. But what happens when the plurality of the rainbow gets collapsed into a single image of two men kissing?

What our profile pictures and swipe-rights can tell us about human behavior, according to sociologist Jessica Carbino.

A new study examines the lasting impacts of social isolation on key health indicators including blood pressure and inflammation.

In which we put on a little Barry White for you.

Researchers find that people who work to avoid conflicts are just as happy single—in fact, they're happier than other singles.

It makes your canine love you too.

Should the discovery of a handgun, a noose, or Nazi dolls be a deal breaker? Strange bedroom artifacts reveal character and background, but they might also spur flawed interpretations.

Is there another holiday as perennially divisive as Valentine's Day? We've compiled stories on love and lust that will fit whatever mood you happen to be in this year.

We met at 18. We wed at 24. At 27, I checked my wife into a psych ward—for the first time. How mental illness re-shapes a marriage.

Forget how friends, family, and others feel. People even tend to view their partners more favorably than their partners view themselves.

It’s not exactly true that everyone grieves in their own way. It’s a universal experience, which is good, because that can help us to better understand the mourning among us.

Coordinated snooze time is the signal of a stable marriage, a new study suggests.

Do men pretend like they're not into Valentine's Day—or any other love-related things—because of the way society pressures them to avoid "girly" things in our culture?

In India, where many kids are hungry to share their love with one another, February 14 is an opportunity to openly oppose their conservative parents' values.

As artificial intelligence advances and our toys become more and more like us, we must consider the ethics of extracting pleasure from the machines.

Likewise, divorce can send past offenders back into lives of crime.

How we feel about romance has everything to do with the relationship we’re currently in (or not in).

For Valentine's Day, a roundup of recent research on romance and relationships.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, new research from China suggests information taken from fMRI scans may predict whether a new romantic relationship will last.

New research links levels of the “cuddle hormone” with falling, and staying, in love.