FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Libido, Forego
4 Apr 2016
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Evoluionary theorists suggest that love is a commitment device. Leads people to forego atracive immediate rewards in favour of longer term beneits. People report fewer thoughts about an atracive alternaive and recalled fewer atraciveness-related details about the alternaive than those told to focus on their desire for their current partner o. Crucial that love carries on long enough for raising children. Sex drive, regulated by hormones: drives reproducion by moivaing us to mate with others, diferent systems of brain are acivated. Feelings of comfort and security which keep couples together long enough to raise children: drives companionate love, fuelled by oxytocin. Couples who cuddle and talk ater sex feel happier and more sexually saisied in their relaionships, regardless with if the sex was good or not. Oxytocin has relaionship with dopamine, rewarding, makes you crave love, boost of dopamine when you are with person you love. Love results from biological, chemical hormones o o.
