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- True love isn’t just a feeling, it's a choice and a commitment to constantly work on building a meaningful and fulfilling relationship. Therefore, it's important to recognize the difference between simply loving the idea of someone and actually loving them, in order to avoid disappointment, heartbreak and unhappiness in the long run.
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- Biology is a key factor. I know we might like to think that we’re in total control of our thoughts and emotions. But when we’re attracted to someone and begin to have intense feelings for them, it’s largely because biology is helping us.
- Fantasy versus reality. When we’re infatuated, everything looks wonderful and perfect. Even though we know life isn’t perfect and often not wonderful, when we’re in this state of heightened emotion it seems as if everything is right as it is and that nothing can go wrong.
- Superficial versus deep. When we’re infatuated, the emphasis is on what we think makes us most attractive—the way we look, dress, behave. We may be holding back for fear that if we showed parts of ourselves we don’t care for, our partner might be turned off.
- Obsession versus "let it be” Infatuation is another way of saying we are in love with an idea/ideal versus the real thing. One may become so infatuated that they think about the other person all day, totally consumed by them or thoughts of them when they’re not there.
Consider the arrow of Cupid, the potion of a sorcerer – love seems elemental. Yet love is not easily conquered by science. Let us look at why. Sex pheromones, chemicals designed to broadcast...
Feb 14, 2015 · Love is not just an emotion people feel toward other people, but also a complex tying together of the emotions that two or a few more people have; it is a special form of emotional...
Jul 29, 2024 · When you stand in love, you act in certain ways toward a person. Just like learning to play an instrument, you can also get better at loving with patience, concentration and discipline.
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- A Brain Imaging Study (Scientific Explanation of Love)
The scientific explanation for love is quite complex. The problem is not subjectivity. Calling it subjective diminishes it by a lot. It’s not coffee that you find tasty and the experience changes with context. We can’t even identify preset criteria that suggest that one can experience love which others can confirm. Perhaps a large component of love...
The philosophy 101 explanation:
Before we get into the psychology of love, we should look at concept formation. A table has a set of properties that make it a table. The table has a table-ness, that you can sense and perceive in other tables and put them in the category of tables. The same goes with a chair. Is abstraction a way to conceptualize? Sure. But, that’s only half the picture.
Kiki-Bouba experiment:
(my research domain) I’ll give you two names. Choose which name suits which shape. Names: 1. Kiki 2. Bouba What do you think? …. ….. …… ……. (spoilers ahead) ……. …….. ……… …………. . 95% of the human population thinks the left image is a ‘Kiki’ and the right image is a ‘Bouba’. Why? We have a bunch of theories that do a pretty good job of explaining this phenomenon. At the heart of each, there is something called as cross-sensory perception and abstraction. It turns out that the best e...
An emotion complex: A mental web of all things connected that have disproportionately strong with each other that are unique to people, have emotional value, have ideas, thoughts, expectations, experiences, true and untrue memories. These complexes can be huge that spawn an entire childhood or can be largely centeredaround your graduation. Its a we...
When brains of a variety of people in love were imaged, there was a startling discovery. All those lust regions lit up. Surely love is not just plain animistic lust. There is gotta be more. Of course, there is. The research found that above these ‘lust regions’ there exist newer, modern brain regions that light up when someone is in love but not wh...
Sep 16, 2024 · Love is a fundamental and complex human emotion. Learn more about the different types of love and their effects on our bodies.
The idea of romantic love initially stems from the Platonic tradition that love is a desire for beauty-a value that transcends the particularities of the physical body. For Plato, the love of beauty culminates in the love of philosophy, the subject that pursues the highest capacity of thinking.