Larry Young, a professor at Emory University, runs a lab that intensely studies the neuroscience behind love. He does not merely suggest that love is a strong attraction between people, but rather states that it is a behavioral addiction. His research, stated in his article, The Behavioral, Anatomical and Pharmacological Parallels Between Social Attachment, Love and Addiction, includes the overlap of drug addiction and attachment in the brain. Although his suggestions are entirely focused on what happens in the brain, they do coincide with Darwin’s observations on love between humans. In Darwin’s The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, he writes on what happens to a person, physically, when they come in contact with someone they love. …show more content…
In his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Darwin writes on the basic emotions in man and how the physical expressions reflect them. Darwin specifically writes on love stating that although the emotion of love between a mother and child is the strongest, “it can hardly be said to have any peculiar means of expression” (Darwin 212). Darwin does not specifically state that love is an expression because it is made up many different emotions. When one is in love with someone or something else, emotions towards that object can range from happiness to deep sadness. In his book, Darwin mentions that when someone comes in contact with someone that they love, they tend to smile and their eyes brighten (Darwin 212). He continues to speak on human interaction, mentioning that kissing is a more European way of expressing love to one another and is not usually seen in other parts of the world (Darwin 213). Since love is so complex and causes people to act in unimaginable ways, it cannot be expressed in one way, but rather that love is a factor of such emotions. Love is the final outcome of many different expressions that it cannot be merely categorized as its one single
Sian Beilock is the author of this novel, the information written by her would be considered credible due to the fact that she is a leading expert on brain science in the psychology department at the University of Chicago. This book was also published in the year 2015 which assures readers that the information it contains is up to date and accurate. The novel is easy to understand and the author uses examples of scientific discoveries to help make the arguments more relatable. Beilock goes into depth about how love, is something more than just an emotion, it derives from the body’s anticipation. “Volunteers reported feeling
Love has been instilled as the "sexual desire...or blood ties of kinship...special bond and commitment" by society and mainstream culture and the new knowledge simply interrupt a well established and accepted idea. The reality of the biological aspects gives a demeanor of an attachment of two minds or two bodies parse rather than embodiment of love between two individuals. The experimental reasoning has not only stripped the attraction but sentimental aspect of love . It is often said that when people fall in love their hearts just know and they have a special feeling and that is what most people try to find, the emotion of love. The biology of love seems to detach the emotion from the individual by making love a matter of the brain rather than the heart. Furthermore, the notion behind "love at first sight" looses all meaning; as Fredrickson quotes from a collaborator, there must be "a true meeting of the minds- a single act, performed by two brains" , in essence the brains have to be coupling in order for the connection to truly forge and thus making "love at first sight" a thing of the past. The new insight forces an individual to
The article '' love: the right chemistry'' by Anastasia Toufexis efforts to explain the concept of love from a scientific aspect in which an amateur will understand. Briefly this essay explains and describe in a scientific way how people's stimulation of the body works when you're falling in love. The new scientific researches have given the answer through human physiology how genes behave when your feelings for example get swept away. The justification for this is explained by how the brain gets flooded by chemicals. The author expresses in one point that love isn't just a nonsense behavior nor a feeling that exhibits similar properties as of a narcotic drug. This is brought about by an organized chemical chain who controls different depending on the individual. A simple action such as a deep look into someone's eyes can start the simulation in the body that an increased production of hand sweat will start. The tingly feeling inside your body is a result of a scientific delineation which makes the concept of love more concretely and more factually mainly for researchers and the wide...
The scientific definition of love is "having stimulation that one desires" (5). Recent research by two British neurologists concludes that love is linked to certain brain activities. By conducting tests using a magnetic resonance imager, the scientists measured brain activity in 17 people while they were viewing a picture of their loved one, and while they were viewing a photo of a friend of the same sex as their lover. When the individuals see the picture of the person they love, clear activity occurs in four regions of the brain that were not active when the image of the friend was present. The media insula, which is responsible for instinctual feelings, and the anterior cingulate, which acts in response to euphoria-inducing drugs, such as cocaine, are the two areas of the cortex stimulated by pictures of a lover. The striatum, that is activated when we are rewarded and the prefrontal cortex also increase their activity when shown the same picture.
It has always been part of human nature to form a bond with another person. These bonds may be as trivial as friendship or as strong as love. Love is very complex; it takes a lot of effort and insight to form love with another person. As complicated as love is, why people form these bonds is even more complicated. There is the more biological reasoning, supported by Barbara Fredrickson in “Love 2.0”, that says people need it to survive. As seen in Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”, love can also be formed to either replace an old love or guide one or both people. Continually, in Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together”, people form bonds of love because they love what they nurture. Since love is ingrained in human nature, there is often little choice
Interpersonal Neurobiology presents scientific explanations to brain structure and functions under the impacts of life experiences. If we can understand the addiction from a microsystematic level, we can see assess the changes of neural net profiles in tandem with the addictive behaviors. Moreover, IPNB’s approximity to attachment theory enable counselors to understand addiction from an emotional level. This emotional inspection contains examining clients’ childhood attachment, their interpersonal relationships, and their present feelings.
Love the a core being within our humanity, and desires and affection form us. Love is rarely seen, frowned upon by the Party, and any signs of affection are thoughtcrime. By terminating all emotion and expression love must be eliminated too, but love and need for affection remain a built-in part of our human nature that is nearly impossible to entirely extinguish. As simply another emotion, love would be easier for the Party to successfully eliminate, but it runs in our blood. “The animal instinct,” that resides beneath the surfaces of us, “that was [is] the force that would [will] tear the Party apart” (128). The “animal instinct” refers directly to our human desire for affection, and the manipulation of the emotions of love injures and evokes our natural instincts. The biggest weakness of the Party is what happens beneath our skin, in our minds, and in our hearts, because when it all comes down to it, the animal instinct can never be persuaded or tortured out of
Appendix I shows an article published by the Daily Mail talking about a new phenomenom called ‘love addiction’ and uses quotes from “Pia Mellody, senior clinical adviser at The Meadows treatment centre in Arizona” and “psychotherapist Maureen Courtney” to create and argument from authority. The article makes several claims; the first is that love addiction actually exists as a condition and it also contains a quote from Maureen Courtney to suggest that love addiction has roots in how attachments were formed during childhood. Research has been conducted into whether love is an addictive disorder and the results have been mixed. Reynaud and Karila et al published a journal article in 2010 which found that there are currently inefficient data to be able to classify love addictiction as a clinical disorder. Within this study however they found that in some extreme cases, people suffering from love addiciton would exhibit symptoms similar to that of a drug addiction (eg. Intoxication and withdrawal symptoms). A journal article written by Sussman in 2010 defines love addiction and outlines possible treatments; this suggests that...
I believe that behavioural addictions are in fact addictions. Many people associate the tern 'addiction' with drugs and alcohol, however, there are many other things that people can become dependent on. According to Miller (2015), behavioural addiction refers to a natural drive as being abnormal due to the compulsiveness of the behaviour (i.e., compulsive gambling, sexual addiction and eating disorders). Those who suffer from a behavioural addiction have an increased need to be involved in the activity and may participate in the activity as a way to numb their emotions. I feel that many people do not view such behaviours as addictions simply because they do not possess the ability to differentiate enjoyment from compulsion.
Igor Primoratz (2001) argues that love is the core and foundation to sexual activities, sexual arousal, desire, and erotic love is basic phenomena of human sexuality and human phenomena. . (Primoratz, I. 2001, p
Love and the way we love others varies across different individuals of various cultural backgrounds. From a psychoanalytic approach, many theorists in this field focus on the development of love and it’s stages as we become of age to establish a loving, healthy relationship with a companion. In the book titled Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research (Friedman & Schustack, 2013), A person must have social connection with others in order to achieve true happiness. This is something so unique to humans; the human connection. To connect with another person on an emotional, intellectual, and even physical level brings on an entire new perspective on life. Love is the most powerful force that we have as human
Sex, drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, even hoarding and work - Can all of these things cause addiction? What is addiction, and why are some people more prone to it while others are not? It's long been accepted that people can become addicted to drugs and alcohol but what about the newer addiction theories regarding sex addiction, food addiction, and gambling addiction - are these truly addictions? As a society what is the best way to handle people with addictions whom need help or commit crimes? In this paper I will answer these questions and address other interesting aspects of addiction.
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In order to gather all the information we have got in the science of love, many researchers in different fields have cooperated to form an idea of what occurs when love happens. One of the world leading researches in this field is the American anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of many best-seller books such as why we love, or why him, why her. She has worked with many neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologist, and doctors in order to achieve a big experiment where brains of participants that claimed to be in love or hear...
Drug addiction is a very big problem in today’s society. Many people have had their lives ruined due to drug addiction. The people that use the drugs don’t even realize that they have an addiction. They continue to use the drug not even realizing that their whole world is crashing down around them. Drug addicts normally lose their family and friends due to drug addiction.