THE SCIENCE OF LOVE
We all have wondered some time why we fall in love...what happens in our mind, in our brain?
Psychologists have shown we need 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if you fancy someone.
We can find 3 stages of love:
Firstly, lust. This is the first stage of love and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone (in men) and oestrogen (in women).
Secondly, attraction. Scientists think that three main hormones are involved in this stage: adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin.
-Adrenaline: the initial stages of falling for someone activate your stress responde, increasing your blood levels of adrenalin and cortisol. This has the charming effect that when you accidentally bump into your new love, you start to sweat, your heart races and your mouth goes dry.
-Dopamine: Helenf Fished discovered that the brains of couples have high levels of dopamine. This chemical stimulates ''desire'' causing a lot of pleasure.
-Serotonin: it's one of love's most important chemicals that may explain why hen you're falling in love, your new love is always in your mind
Finally, the las stage: attachment.
Attachment is the bond that keeps couples together to have and raise children. The two hormones involved in this feeling are oxytocin and vasopressin.
Both of them take part in sex. Oxytocin before having sex and vasopressin after having sex.
These hormones increase the feeling and you feel closer to your partner.
When we meet someone and we fall in love with him or her, we have to take into account three points:
*55% of the role is played by body languague; this means that brain detects the activies of the body movement and decides wheter it has received the signals of love or not.
*38% of the decision to be in love is contributed by the voice- the tone and change in frecuency.
*7% is the reaccion to a lover's statement or choice of words.
In conclusion, being in love is one of the most amazing feelings in our body and in our life.
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