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:<3:Love:<3: A chemical reaction? - Coggle Diagram
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A chemical reaction?
:star:Psychiatry:star:
Physical closeness in childhood
Comfort feelings and affection are written on our brain
Our constant inclination is to find them again.
:check: : past we hope to live again. :
:green_cross: the future we hope to build
Psychology
Claus Wedekind
conducted a experiment with sweaty T-shirts
women prefer the smell of a T-shirt worn by a man who was the most genetically different from her
the man's immune system probably possesses something hers does not
increases the chance that her children will be healthy
Evolutionary psychologist
we are attracted to people who look healthy
a women with:70% waist-to-hip ratio
can likely bear children successfully
a man with rugged features
more likely to give his partner healthy children
Biochemistry
Donatella Marazziti
(Italian university professor)
examined the blood of people who had fallen in love
Love and mental illness are related.
Anthropology
Helen Fisher
the aid of MRI machine
:<3:reward and pleasure lit up
Dopamine: create intense energy, exhilaration ,focused attention ,and motivation
couples who want their relationship to last
should keep a close physical relationship
trigger the production of more oxytocin
feel close to each other