Message Number: |
634 |
From: |
Ashley S Bangert <abangert Æ umich.edu> |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:55:49 -0500 (EST) |
Subject: |
Re: Grandpa Andrew's Reflections on Marriage (fwd) |
Whoops! Sorry My pasting in of the link didn't work the first time around. Here
it is again:
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_loveAndTheBrain
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 Sat, 10 Mar 2007, bethany soule wrote:
> hey Ashley, can we get your citations?
>
> On 3/9/07, Ashley S Bangert wrote:
>> 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)786-1434, fax: (734)786-3235
>> >
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