In most cases, the manifestation of love is associated with the heart. You can often hear the phrase "my heart belongs to you" or "you broke my heart." When we fall in love, our heart begins to beat faster and hurt if we lose love. But the reality is much more prosaic than it might seem.
Scientists have experimented many times to prove that love is controlled by the minds. In 2000, a couple of scientists from London gathered 17 volunteers who considered themselves madly in love. They scanned their brains while looking at images of their loved ones. During the viewing, when the participants looked at the face of a loved one, certain specific areas of the brain "lit up". But at the same time other parts of the region were deactivated.
In 2004, two other American scientists conducted experiments. But this time it was not the people who were obedient, but the vole mice. The fact is that meadow voles (rodents), or rather their separate species Microtus Ocrogaste, form a pair for the rest of their life after the first mating. Scientists injected the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin into the cerebrospinal fluid of mice and monitored their response.
It turned out that up to this moment we knew little about love.
Love from the point of view of science
Now everyone knows that Love is directly related to hormones. Each of the hormones is responsible for a specific response in the body. For example Testosterone is responsible for attractiveness. The more testosterone a man has, the more attractive he is to women and the more he likes the opposite sex. Another popular hormone serotonin affects the fact that we cannot get the object of adoration out of our heads. Its deficiency manifests itself when a person has obsessive thoughts. In simple words, each hormone is responsible for a specific reaction in the love mechanism of lovers.
How to fall in love?
I recently read an interesting story. Psychologist Arthur Aron in 1997 made two strangers fall in love. All he needed was 36 questions and a little time. Perfect strangers who first saw each other had to answer each other's questions. The main condition was that after answering the question, the participants in the experiment had to look at each other in complete silence for 4 minutes.
The questions were like “Do you want to be famous?”, “When did you last cry,” and so on. As a result, strangers left after a session with a psychologist in love with each other. It turns out that love can be controlled. By the way, the people who participated in the experiment got married after half a year.
Does love make us stupider?
Yes and no at the same time. The female sex is less susceptible to such changes than men. Even a small experiment was conducted on this topic. The men interacted with very beautiful women, but at the beginning and after the conversation, their intellectual abilities were tested. It turned out that the subjects began to think worse after communicating with girls. The same experiment with girls showed that after talking with men, their results did not change.
Another study only confirmed this fact. The essence of the test is to name the color of each word shown in the picture. But the color of each word did not match its name. This was misleading.
Each group passed the test twice, without supervision and under supervision of the opposite sex. The results of the men became worse, while the women's resultats remained unchanged.
As you can see, science confirms the fact that love depends on the biology and chemistry of the body. It will affect our lives, but it can be controlled. Despite the fact that sometimes absurd and boisterous acts are committed for the sake of love, but it does not cease to be less beautiful. In the end, I wish you to enjoy love.
