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Love: A Chemical Reaction? - Coggle Diagram
Love: A Chemical Reaction?
Phychiatry
Thomas Lewis
love is rooted in experience
how we felt in our mother's arms
theory
"right person"
certain look, smell, sound, or touch
X the future we hope to build
O the past we hope to live again
Psychology
Survival skills are inherent in our choice of a mate.
women --> 70% waist-to-hip ratio
bear children successfully
men-> rugged features
healthy immune system
Genetically compatible
experiment
ask women to smell men's sweaty T-shirts
Result: women preferred the smell of a T-shirt worn by a man who was the most genetically different from her.
Biochemistry
own experiences
Theory
relationship between fancy and mental illness
love and OCD → ▽40% serotonin
love & mental illness --> difficult to tell apar
Donatella Marazzziti (university of the Pisa)
lovesickness
Anthropology
Helen Fisher (Rutgers University)
experiment
subjects: people who are madly in love.
MRI machine
neutral pics
beloved's pics
result
dopamine lit up the areas of reward and pleasure in their brain.