Barbara Frederickon Artificial Love Analysis

Barbara Frederickson's take on love is truly compelling. Rather than summarizing love in the cliche-like fashion that Americans have grown accustomed to, Frederickson takes an entirely new spin on love and its relation to the human biology. There are no loose statements; each idea has a specific set of reasons for being introduced into the passage as well as experimental evidence to emphasize that the ideas are not hypothetical, but proven. Frederickson's findings could serve to be invaluable in the world today. With all of the distractions that people are exposed to during every minute of every day; sometimes the most essential things in life, are not given the required amount of attention. Love is one of those essential things that is often set off to the side, or …show more content…
If more people read and truly grasped the ideas brought forth in Barbara Fredrickson’s loves biology, so many things would change. Outward appearance would mean less, face to face conversations might once again be seen as more favorable than face to screen, and most importantly, relationships might just last because people genuinely love and appreciate their partner, rather than feeling “morally” obligated for it to last. People may follow their vagus nerves and their oxytocin, rather than following their eyes. Like Barbara Fredrickson's said before she started, forget what you think you know. Put the Disney fairytales and movies aside and allow nature to truly take course. There is no telling what you might find out about yourself and the people around you. Life is too short for people to be cheated of true and genuine relationships. It is time for us all to branch out, put the phones down and tap into Love’s true biology so that we may experience both the beauty and purity of natural, wholehearted