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What Is Love According to Science, Philosophy and Religion?
The most popular Google search of last year was the question: “What is Love?” And the Guardian newspaper asked five “experts” to answer it.
A physicist, a psychotherapist, a philosopher, an author of romantic novels and a nun gave their answer to the question about Love, from their personal perspective of the subject.
The Physicist
“Love is chemistry” (Answers Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and writer).
Biologically, Love is an intense neurological condition, such as hunger or thirst, but more permanent. We say that love is blind or we talk about love being blind or unconditional, meaning that we cannot control it. But again, this is not particularly surprising, since Love, is basically (more…)
What Happens to Our Brain When We Break Up?
An unwanted and unexpected separation may entail significant psychological stress. Often people parallel this feeling with a fist in the stomach, or a stab in the heart. Despite the efforts, the help and support of their friendly circle, this feeling proves to be very difficult to fade away, at least in the first few months. In an attempt to understand the subjectivity and universality of the pain of separation, psychologists have focused their research on studying the brain.
Edward Smith and his colleagues, having collected a sample of people who had just experienced an unwanted and painful breakup, investigated their brain activity using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) while they were looking at photos of former partners and thinking of the moments they spent together. Afterwards, their brain activity was examined while researchers were inflicting pain in their arm, and when looking at pictures of their friends. (more…)
Scientists Reveal Why Men Don’t Understand Women
Women, beware: the next time you want to complain to your partner, as he does not understand you, take a deep breath and think this all the way through: maybe you are asking something beyond his power. A new study claims that men are not capable of interpreting the emotions of women – at least from their eyes.
Instead, men’s brain seems to be neurologically developed in such a way that they encode more easily the feelings of other men. This feature is believed to have important evolutionary usefulness, since it must have been a key factor for survival in the “wilder” era of the most powerful prevailing male. (more…)
Six Rules Everyone Should Live By
To succeed in life, you need to be realistic about yourself and others, reach harmony between inner and outer world, and try to change yourself to become better. And the following six life rules will help you with this.
Mirror Rule
People around you are your mirrors. They reflect the traits of your own personality that you cannot perceive. For example, if someone is rude to you, the one who allows and tolerates this is you. If someone deceives you again and again, then probably you are inclined to trust everybody. So do not take offense at anyone. (more…)
Love Really Is a Drug, Say Scientists
Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University of New York, studied such strong feelings as love and passion and came to interesting conclusions.
Many of us are addicted to different things. Our habits include a variety of things and events: from the daily routine habits to our favorite activities and places. We begin to feel uncomfortable when we do not get enough of our familiar things. We get used and feel the need of these things, just like in drug addiction. According to the latest research, an emotional expression like love can be attributed to drugs. (more…)
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