Message Number: 657
From: Ashley S Bangert <abangert Æ umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:53:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Grandpa Andrew's Reflections on Marriage
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I thought that some of you might be interested in what the Society for 
Neuroscience has to say about love and the Brain. Check out the following 
website and note the cited journal articles at the bottom of the page.

Ashley S. Bangert
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Psychology
530 Church St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
Office: 4441 East Hall
Office Phone: (734) 763-1532
email: abangert Æ umich.edu


On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Dave Morris wrote:

> I believe, and think that I have seen, that many people feel love very 
> differently, and that it can work quite differently for different people, 
> both in what is required to maintain it, and in whether they can feel it for 

> more than one person at a time. Quite a few problems in relationships arise  
> because of this fact, because one partner may assume that love works the same
 
> way for their counterpart as for themselves, and thus misinterpret their 
> actions- mistrust their emotions.
>
> Recent studies are beginning to detect what scientists believe are 
> electromagnetic signs of that "in love" feeling in the brain, which is 
> apparently differentiable from lust and other emotions. But this is just 
> beginning, it will be some time before they can draw general conclusions and 

> explore the full range of possibility of human emotion.    And there's a 
> frightening though- what if your partner could put a hat on you and ask you  
> if you are "in love" with them and the computer would tell them whether or  
> not you're lying. Or maybe would that be a good thing? Hmmm.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Daniel Reeves wrote:
>
>>> the pysiological condition of being "in love" is only possible with one 
>>> person at a time. If you can't relate to what I'm talking about, then 
>>> you've never really been in love.
>> 
>> So judgmental!  I think second guessing people's emotions is a bad idea.
>> 
>> -- 
>> http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves  - -  search://"Daniel Reeves"
>> 
>> Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> David P. Morris, PhD
> Operations Manager and Senior Engineer
> ElectroDynamic Applications, Inc.
> morris Æ edapplications.com, (734)=A0786-1434, fax: (734)=A0786-3235
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