One of the most important aspects of our development as human beings is our interaction with other individuals. The way in which we socialize with others is influenced by our emotions and feelings. People interact more with friends, neighbors, and family depending on how they feel when they are around. Some of the positive emotions, we might refer to as affection, care, and love. However, this process become more complex when we start thinking about the concept of romantic love towards a partner and what makes it different from the love we feel for our family members, friends, etc. In the article, “Experiences of falling in love: Investigating culture, ethnicity, gender, and speed” the researchers Suzanne Riela, Geraldine Rodriguez, Arthur
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A summary of those precursors is: Appearance, similarity (sharing similar things like attitudes), personality, reciprocal liking, familiarity (spending time together), filling needs (self’s need met or meeting other’s need), social influence, arousal (physiological reactions), readiness (ready to seek a relationship), specific cues (like characteristics of the other person), mysteriousness , and isolation (being alone with the loved one). The researchers conducted a study with 127 participants from the U.S. and China who were undergraduate students at a university in the U.S., and had fallen in love in the past. Those participants were given surveys asking them to describe their recent experience in which they fell in love (Riela, Rodriguez, Aron, Xu, & Acevedo, …show more content…
In terms of cultural differences, the researchers found that in the case of ethnic differences in arousal, there were greater levels of arousal reported from White-Americans than from Asian students. Therefore, White-American participants described in their surveys that they felt more nervous, having rapid breathing and heart rate than Asian participants. In the case of gender differences in filling needs, it was greater for women than for men, from both cultures. Thus, women tend to look and fall in love with someone who is capable of meeting some of their needs and viceversa, more than men (Riela, Rodriguez, Aron, Xu, & Acevedo, 2010). In my opinion, the findings of the study are very interesting and helpful at the time of understanding what humans usually look and concentrate at when falling in love. There are not many researche studies that talk about this, but I think it is important to know the ways in which individuals unconsciously focus their attention at the time for looking for a partner. Also, it is interesting to know how this procesess can vary across
A summary of those precursors is: Appearance, similarity (sharing similar things like attitudes), personality, reciprocal liking, familiarity (spending time together), filling needs (self’s need met or meeting other’s need), social influence, arousal (physiological reactions), readiness (ready to seek a relationship), specific cues (like characteristics of the other person), mysteriousness , and isolation (being alone with the loved one). The researchers conducted a study with 127 participants from the U.S. and China who were undergraduate students at a university in the U.S., and had fallen in love in the past. Those participants were given surveys asking them to describe their recent experience in which they fell in love (Riela, Rodriguez, Aron, Xu, & Acevedo, …show more content…
In terms of cultural differences, the researchers found that in the case of ethnic differences in arousal, there were greater levels of arousal reported from White-Americans than from Asian students. Therefore, White-American participants described in their surveys that they felt more nervous, having rapid breathing and heart rate than Asian participants. In the case of gender differences in filling needs, it was greater for women than for men, from both cultures. Thus, women tend to look and fall in love with someone who is capable of meeting some of their needs and viceversa, more than men (Riela, Rodriguez, Aron, Xu, & Acevedo, 2010). In my opinion, the findings of the study are very interesting and helpful at the time of understanding what humans usually look and concentrate at when falling in love. There are not many researche studies that talk about this, but I think it is important to know the ways in which individuals unconsciously focus their attention at the time for looking for a partner. Also, it is interesting to know how this procesess can vary across