Wikipedia talk:United States Education Program/Courses/Research in Personality (MaryBeth McGavran)/Articles/Unconditional Love

Very nice contribution! It's an interesting topic, I like the Neurological basis section a lot, perhaps finding one or more sources to back this up would further your case. The only thing that i would add is a section on how there are those who believe that unconditional love or Altruism is impossible, and that in fact everything we do has some personal reasoning behind it. Take for example a lioness protecting her young, there are those who say that this is out of pure love, Biologist however will tell you that she is doing this to further her blood line, same can be said about those who do good for others (although we can never know people's intentions "faking good" is a common phenomena that happens where people try to appear selfless in order to gain something for themselves whether that's monetary value or popularity or even to make themselves feel better. If any of these are the reasoning it makes the definition of altruism null in void, because they are not doing the act solely for the purpose of another) It's something that is argued a lot within biology, and it's interesting that it can be brought into a psychology situation. I would suggest doing some research on the opposing side as well as building up the two sections you are doing. This way you will have a neutral stand point, because as of now it seems as though you are writing in a way that makes it seem one sided, if that makes sense? Over all though your wording sounds good and the sections will be a good contribution to the article. --LEHussain (talk) 18:51, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much! These are great ideas that I will definately add! --Alexandria.hagan91 (talk) 13:31, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I really like your topic. It amazed me last semester when I was learning about unconditional love, that this is the type of love which is supposed to exist between parents and child. It is a very universal and consistent love around the entire world. You could do some research and note that in your article therefore making a connection between unconditional love and the world. However I would definitely be careful when talking about religion, being that whoever made the original article was very consistent on making a connection between religion and love, I do not believe that religion really has anything to do with unconditional love. I feel and have done some research that it is a "born with" feature, something embedded within all humans (with the exceptions of a few). You may want to focus more on the mental perspective of the topic to remain more professional and creditable being that you can back up your information with creditable sources when NOT discussing religion. It might be interesting if you can find examples of unconditional love and integrate that within your article. I added a sentence in your opening statement that might be helpful for this. I think your grammar and sentence structure is very nicely put and sounds very professional/creditabl. A picture of mother, father and child might be a nice touch. Good luck! -Victoria Parker — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vdpa222 (talk • contribs) 13:48, 20 April 2012 (UTC)