Science of Love

Science of Love

Love and its mystic beauty was always the favorite subject since centuries for the poets, lyricists, play writers and novelists to express their creativity. These were the set of people that wrote on the emotions and human understandings of love, its intricacies and what it does to a person who is in love specifically. The intellectual thinkers of our society dominated the meaning and expression of love through their eyes and often Romanized love relationships in myriad colors and fragrance. These classes of people believed and through their work made others believe and feel that romance is a beautiful experience that is inexplicable as the beauty of a moonlit night on a seaside or the beauty of a rainbow on a clear sky after a downpour. But these days this notion of poetic beauty of love is challenged by the scientists.

They seem to have rather a lot to say on peoples feeling of Love for each other. According to various scientists, researchers and anthropologists there is some irresistible cocktails of chemicals that occur within our brains that provoke us to fall in love. It is not the poetic love at first sight, but it is scientists’ study revealing that a person takes about 90 seconds to approximately 4 minutes to decide if one is fancied about someone. People is not fancied at the first instance by what they say, instead it is the body language that attracts the opposite partner.

Love Happens In Three Stages

The feeling of love is already defined in three stages based on the secretions of hormones by anthropologist Helen Fischer. Dr. Fischer’s contention is that the chemical responsible to respond to the stimuli of romantic love is dopamine. Her several studies on gender difference and evolution of human emotions shed light on some eternal questions as why people love, and what makes them fall into love.

Stage I of Love

The first stage in the cycle of love is lust that is driven by the secretion of sex hormones called testosterones and oestrogen. It is these chemicals that send the signals of attraction when one fancies about someone. It simply gets you hooked on someone.

Stage II of Love

Then is the second stage of attraction, both physical and emotional. This phase is also called as the love-sick phase. During this phase a group of neurotransmitters called monoamines is quite significant.

Stage III of Love

The stage of attraction sets the motion for a long and enduring attachment marking the beginning of third stage.

Indeed there are also certain chemical compounds secreted in the brain namely the oxytocin and vasopressin during this phase and the secretion of these chemical substances is crucial in enduring a long as well as a committed relationship. Therefore, it is the plethora of these chemicals within one’s brain cells that create the vibes for falling in love as well as staying in love.

It is believed that chemicals such as serotonin also explain as to why and when you keep falling in love, and why the thoughts of your new lover keep coming on and off. With research happening all around the poetic imagination of love is now being explained with the part of the brain cell that becomes active. Several studies reveal that part of brain gets activated due to certain activities for instance winning a lottery or seeing a beautiful face. According to clinical neurologist Antonio Damasio, love is neither intangible nor elusive. Several scientists describe feelings of love as activity happening within the brain cells with the secretion of several hormones and chemicals and it is these chemicals in the brain that create the spark of feeling of love.

So, all the researchers and scientists are now asking people to forget roses and concentrate on dopamine as symbol of love. The study of Love with science is to add a new dimension to our thought process.

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