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When people typically consider concepts of love, commitment, and sex, they often view them through the perspective of romance and poetic expression. Nevertheless, these subjects can also be analyzed scientifically, yielding significant insights. Indeed, our brain and physiological responses offer valuable information about feelings of attachment, affection and romance, and there remains much more to uncover in this field.
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InsightKayt Sukel is a science writer and travel enthusiast whose work focuses on love, sex, neuroscience, travel, and politics. She is a frequent writer to many of the Dana Foundation's science publications and co-owner of the award-winning family travel website Travel Savvy Mom.
When people typically consider concepts of love, commitment, and sex, they often view them through the perspective of romance and poetic expression. Nevertheless, these subjects can also be analyzed scientifically, yielding significant insights. Indeed, our brain and physiological responses offer valuable information about feelings of attachment, affection and romance, and there remains much more to uncover in this field.
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7 BitesThe study of our minds has been a complex subject for centuries.
Romantic feelings and actions are influenced by dopamine.
The exact mechanism of sex hormones remains a mystery.
The neurobiology of attraction does not provide a definitive explanation for why certain stimuli are attractive.
It's known that monogamy is regulated by hormones in rodents, but how it works in humans has not been fully answered.
Humans and prairie voles both cheat, but the reasons are quite different.
We may not realize how closely related love and hate are from a biological point of view.
