What is "love" from the sciensetific piont of view?

Answer 1

Stage 1: LUST
Lust is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen. Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of women. These hormones as Helen Fisher says "get you out looking for anything".


Stage 2: ATTRACTION
This is the truly love-struck phase. When people fall in love they can think of nothing else. They might even lose their appetite and need less sleep, preferring to spend hours at a time daydreaming about their new lover.

In the attraction stage, a group of neuro-transmitters called 'monoamines' play an important role:

Dopamine - Also activated by cocaine and nicotine


Norepinephrine - Otherwise known as adrenalin. Starts us sweating and gets the heart racing


Serotonin - One of love's most important chemicals and one that may actually send us temporarily insane

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OVER the course of history it has been artists, poets and playwrights who have made the greatest progress in humanity's understanding of love. Romance has seemed as inexplicable as the beauty of a rainbow. But these days scientists are challenging that notion, and they have rather a lot to say about how and why people love each other.

Is this useful? The scientists think so. For a start, understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people's ability to form relationships. All relationships, whether they are those of parents with their children, spouses with their partners, or workers with their colleagues, rely on an ability to create and maintain social ties. Defects can be disabling, and become apparent as disorders such as autism and schizophrenia—and, indeed, as the serious depression that can result from rejection in love. Research is also shedding light on some of the more extreme forms of sexual behaviour. And, controversially, some utopian fringe groups see such work as the doorway to a future where love is guaranteed because it will be provided chemically, or even genetically engineered from conception.



How love makes voles of us all
The Journal of Comparative Neurology publishes an abstract of Dr Young's article on prairie voles. Northern State University has a profile of the prairie vole. Test how loved-up you are with Economist.com's love quiz.


The scientific tale of love begins innocently enough, with voles. The prairie vole is a sociable creature, one of the only 3% of mammal species that appear to form monogamous relationships. Mating between prairie voles is a tremendous 24-hour effort. After this, they bond for life. They prefer to spend time with each other, groom each other for hours on end and nest together. They avoid meeting other potential mates. The male becomes an aggressive guard of the female. And when their pups are born, they become affectionate and attentive parents. However, another vole, a close relative called the montane vole, has no interest in partnership beyond one-night-stand sex. What is intriguing is that these vast differences in behaviour are the result of a mere handful of genes. The two vole species are more than 99% alike, genetically.

Answer 2

Throughout history, philosophy and religion have done the most speculation on the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. In recent years, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have added to our understanding of the nature and function of love.

Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, just like hunger or thirst. Psychology depicts love as a cognitive and social phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg formulated a Triangular theory of love and argued that love has three different components: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. Intimacy is a form by which two people can share secrets and various details of their personal lives. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment on the other hand is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. The last and most common form of love is sexual attraction and passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love. This led researchers such as Yela [citation needed] to further refine the model by separating Passion into two independents components: Erotic Passion and Romantic Passion.

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

The Scientific Explanation

Love is a chemical, its purpose is to help continue the species by encouraging us to reproduce and to care and bring up our children. Scientists are discovering that the same chemical process that takes place with addiction takes place when we fall in love. Some researchers say that we tend to be attracted to members of the opposite sex who remind us of our parents or even ourselves.

Psychologist David Perrett, at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland performed an experiment where he digitised and morphed photos of a number of participants into the opposite sex. He then asked them to choose which they felt most attracted to, he found that the participants always preferred the morphed version of there own face, without recognizing it as their own face.

Answer 5

Interesting question... actually the human species is the only life form that exhibits love to the extent we do. Consider the term "broken heart" for example... humans have developed terms and decriptions for emotional conditions that have no physical manifestations. We actually suffer bodily injury for completely spiritual incidents.
That is what I believe seperates us from animals. We are driven to make the world a better place with our compassion to help each other.

Answer 6

Scientists say it is a chemical reaction formed in the brain due to pheremones put out to trigger such a reaction.
That is stupid! If that were so,then we would be falling in love with everyone.
Love,true love, is a more powerful phenomenon than we can ever explain.

Answer 7

Well if you ask Freud, he would tell you that it is an emotion existing for the purpose of survival. You love those around you, such as your children and spouse, to ensure the survival of your species. If you did not love your children, you would not want to take care of them or protect them. If you did not love your husband, you would not want to take care of him, or even want him around, thus you would not reproduce. But then again, Freud was a big, negative, grump, so he could have been totally wrong.

Answer 8

Personally, I would think that the scienfic aspects of love would be a chemical feeling as well as attraction to the partner but I think the only way to create a happy lasting relationship is through spirituality and God.

Answer 9

Did you miss this in class?

Answer 10

describe "sciensetific"?