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February 20, 2004

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"Love is a many splendored thing".

Actually, it turns out it's more of a chemical thing. A small taste:

Scanning the brains of people in love is also helping to refine science's grasp of love's various forms. Helen Fisher, a researcher at Rutgers University, and the author of a new book on love*, suggests it comes in three flavours: lust, romantic love and long-term attachment. There is some overlap but, in essence, these are separate phenomena, with their own emotional and motivational systems, and accompanying chemicals. These systems have evolved to enable, respectively, mating, pair-bonding and parenting...

Romantics, of course, have always known that love is a special sort of chemistry. Scientists are now beginning to show how true this is.

Highly recommended reading.

 posted by Simon on 02.20.04 at 11:37 AM in the




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Ah yes...Helen Fisher. I quoted one of her books in a post while you were on holiday. I think she's fabulous.

It's about time scientists accepted that love is chemical. Now it's about time they come up with a pill for it, so we don't have to bother with these dreadful romantic entanglements.

posted by: Helen on 02.20.04 at 03:55 PM [permalink]

Simon - you've been to Matilda recently, haven't you?

 posted by: kennycan on 02.23.04 at 09:40 AM [permalink]




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