Neurological Feeling of Love
It doesn’t always erase life; love. Mistakes. Heartbreaks. We don’t ask for what we receive, but sometimes we become better from it. We’ve never known what “love” really is, but we do know it makes are stomach ache and it makes us drop everything. So what is it that makes us feel that strong attachment to another? Is it a whimsical feeling that comes over us when we meet “the one?” Is it a naturally occurring chemical cocktail mixing together in our brains? Throughout this paper I will be sharing what I’ve found from exploring the topic of love. Hopefully by the end we will all have a better understanding of what love really is.
After reading most of the articles I’ve collected about love I’ve noticed that they all refer to Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. This theory suggests that there are three components to love and a different combination of them make up different kinds of love. The three components are intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy and passion make up what is called romantic love. Passion and Commitment make up fatuous love. Commitment and intimacy make up companionate love. If you combined all three components you get consummate love, which is what everyone wants their relationship to have.
From a biology stand point; it is hypothesized that things such as hormonal changes, things that happen to you throughout your life, can change your brains chemistry. This can lead to someone being susceptible to stimulation from another person, which ultimately leads them to falling in love. Our choices in one person over another have to do with stimulating positive memories from our early memories which are recorded in our hippocampus, which is also connected to the amygdala. Recent research has examined different types of love. “Which is done by testing for differences in the neural correlates of participants viewing or thinking about targets with whom they have love relationships of different types.” (Polner and Clark 48) The experiments have
After reading most of the articles I’ve collected about love I’ve noticed that they all refer to Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. This theory suggests that there are three components to love and a different combination of them make up different kinds of love. The three components are intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy and passion make up what is called romantic love. Passion and Commitment make up fatuous love. Commitment and intimacy make up companionate love. If you combined all three components you get consummate love, which is what everyone wants their relationship to have.
From a biology stand point; it is hypothesized that things such as hormonal changes, things that happen to you throughout your life, can change your brains chemistry. This can lead to someone being susceptible to stimulation from another person, which ultimately leads them to falling in love. Our choices in one person over another have to do with stimulating positive memories from our early memories which are recorded in our hippocampus, which is also connected to the amygdala. Recent research has examined different types of love. “Which is done by testing for differences in the neural correlates of participants viewing or thinking about targets with whom they have love relationships of different types.” (Polner and Clark 48) The experiments have