“Chemistry of Love: Scanning the Brain ‘in Love’“ focuses on the different emotions and feelings love may bring to couples who are in a passionate romantic relationship. Fisher describes three chemicals: dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin that play an important role on how the brain works when a person is in love with their significant other. Each chemical effects the brain and an individual’s expression of their feelings and emotions towards their beloved. Helen Fisher’s most important finding in this chapter was the idea that “romantic love is a primary motivation system in the brain, in short, a fundamental human mating drive” (Fisher, p.74). This finding is important because it enables couples to build and work hard towards keeping
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Art Aron, a college student, states his theory that “romantic love is primarily a motivation system, rather than an emotion” (p.74). Love often brings emotions that stimulates a person’s feelings towards their beloved. However, the brain plays a role in the chemical reactions that are released during an intimacy. Dopamine, for example, makes lovers “concentrate so relentlessly on the positive qualities of the adored one that they easily overlook his or her negative traits (p.52). This feeling of dopamine that causes lovers to become happy effects their actions when talking to their beloved. It changes dramatically because they experience sweaty palms, a pounding heart, and nervousness. Norepinephrine, a drug that stimulates a lover’s brain to remember any small details about their beloved, is also an example of this. It demonstrates how a person who is in romantic relationship can daydream and fantasize about their significant other. Despite the rushed adrenaline, this is important because it improves their attention to always focus on each other. Hence, this proves my statement because it increases lover’s goal-oriented behaviors to be attentive to each other in order to satisfy their
Art Aron, a college student, states his theory that “romantic love is primarily a motivation system, rather than an emotion” (p.74). Love often brings emotions that stimulates a person’s feelings towards their beloved. However, the brain plays a role in the chemical reactions that are released during an intimacy. Dopamine, for example, makes lovers “concentrate so relentlessly on the positive qualities of the adored one that they easily overlook his or her negative traits (p.52). This feeling of dopamine that causes lovers to become happy effects their actions when talking to their beloved. It changes dramatically because they experience sweaty palms, a pounding heart, and nervousness. Norepinephrine, a drug that stimulates a lover’s brain to remember any small details about their beloved, is also an example of this. It demonstrates how a person who is in romantic relationship can daydream and fantasize about their significant other. Despite the rushed adrenaline, this is important because it improves their attention to always focus on each other. Hence, this proves my statement because it increases lover’s goal-oriented behaviors to be attentive to each other in order to satisfy their