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Dr. Frank Conner: “The Psychology of Love: Do Opposites Attract or Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?”

In RESEARCH on August 18, 2012 at 11:27 am

Today just a video, but it REALLY is a good lecture on love. I personally believe that it is definitely worth spending 1,5h on watching it and it doesn’t require any intro.

Dr. Frank Conner presents “The Psychology of Love: Do Opposites Attract or Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?” as part of the 2009-2010 Psychology Lecture Series at Grand Rapids Community College.

Conclusions from research presented in the recording correspond with the every-day life and can easily help us understand what is happening in our relationship.  I think everyone (married/in an informal relationship/single ones…) should see it.

Again -> STRONGLY RECOMMENDED! Enjoy!

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Your Brain in Love and Lust by Scientific American

In RESEARCH on August 6, 2012 at 1:49 am

Here’s a nice video by Scientific American. Thanks to this short presentation you can trace the chemical changes in the brain during different phases of romance and the process of getting attracted.

Some information presented might seem basic, but it seems good for the beginning :-D

Nicely done, informative, keeps the speed and makes difficult processes seem simple.

Enjoy!

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The Love Competition at Stanford University

In RESEARCH on July 29, 2012 at 1:46 am

 

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! :-)

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MARRIAGE – SUCCESS PREDICATORS: #1

In RESEARCH on July 28, 2012 at 10:47 pm

 

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 »

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Empathy and love

In RESEARCH on July 15, 2012 at 10:18 pm

 

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).

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Helen Fisher – the brain in love (TED)

In RESEARCH on July 12, 2012 at 9:17 pm

PhotonQ-LeWeb08 Helen Fisher

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.

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Cross-cultural research

In RESEARCH on July 11, 2012 at 1:16 pm

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!

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