Apparently neuroscientists from Stanford University assumed that the intensity of love can be measured using fMRI scanner. They were checking the levels of activity in the dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin/vasopressin pathways to assess the depth of one’s love for a chosen person. Interestingly they admitted various sorts of love.
The competition took place at Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging.
I think the results turned out interesting!
Enjoy the reportage! :-)
Apparently empirical research has not been very successful at predicting which married couples are likely to separate/divorce and which married couples will stay together so far and only few researches have resulted in finding some indicators which could help with describing couples seeming to be at the greatest risk for martial dissolution.
Accordingly to Gottman and colleagues (Gottman, 1994; Gottman & Levenson, 1992) the way couples behave in conflict situations is more diagnostic of couple success than behavior in either pleasant or neutral interactions.
As I understand, this suggests that it is difficult to make up for negative interactions (in which speaker slopes isn’t significantly positive) in conflict situations between spouses, even if there are positive and pleasant interactions between partners occurring as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Since we know that romantic love escalates within a functionally isolated, closed brain system and that the caudate nucleus would be the crucial brain region in the evolution of love, it is suggested that the hormonal
products of pineal gland may attenuate the romantic love through the anti-dopaminergic and inhibitory effects of theirs on the nucleus. This mechanism might turn out useful in early stages of romantic love to “cure” the infatuation. This means it may be possible to attenuate it by external administration of the melatonin and vasotocin (Shoja, Tubbs, Ansarin, 2007).
This hypothesis sounds somehow promising since Helen Fisher‘s research shows that almost 95% of men and women asked reports being dumped by someone they really loved.
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The connection between love and enforced feeling of empathy seems quite obvious, especially if we are thinking empathy for the beloved one. Even though someone asked 839 people – straight forward – if they would agree with the statement regarding themselves and the ones they were in love with “I feel happy when …… is happy and sad when he/she is sad”.
64% of men and 76% of women agreed with the statement
No surprise, huh?
The data comes from Helen Fisher’s research described in her book “Why We Love? The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love” (Henry Holt and Company, new York, 2005).
Today a video of Mark Gungor explaining the differences and reasons for misunderstandings between men and women in a humoristic and a bit sarcastic way ;-) Enjoy!
In one of my very first posts, I’d like to introduce prof. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist, researcher and great speaker. I had considered love to be an interesting topic before, but this video (which I watched 4 years ago) turned out to be an incentive to deepen and systematize my knowledge.
Due to my Master’s thesis project I am looking for people of any nationality, who would ba so kind to take part in this cross-cultural research on all sorts of close relationships with partners.
Let’s hope results turn out interesting:-)
http://relationships.i-test.pl/
Would be AWESOME if you could fill it out! Thank you!
