The Science of Compassionate Love is an interdisciplinary volume that presents cutting-edge scholarship on the topics of altruism and compassionate love. The book

• Adopts a social science approach to understanding compassionate love
  
• Emphasizes positive features of social interaction
  
• Encourages the appropriate expression of compassionate love both to those in intimate relationships and to strangers
  
• Includes articles by distinguished contributors from the fields of Psychology, Sociology, Communication Studies, Family Studies,...