love is any number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection & attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states and attitudes ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. Love is not a single feeling but an emotion built from two or more feelings.
lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone & estrogen. These effects rarely last more than a few weeks. Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms. Recent studies in neuroscience have indicted that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, nor-epinephrine and serotonin which act in a manner similar to amphetamines stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite & sleep and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one & a half to three years.
since lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding that promotes relationships lasting for many years and even decades. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin to a greater degree than short-term relationships have.
thank you science.
No comments:
Post a Comment