PSY424H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Playgirl, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Speed Dating
12 Dec 2012
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Most complete healthy love consists of 3 major components: passion, commitment and intimacy. Brain is kind of sick when we are falling in love. We experience neuro-chemical changes when fall in love that resemble psychological disorders (obsessive compulsive disorder) Experiment: track levels of serotonin in brain via blood; found that who were in the passionate stage -> low levels of serotonin in comparison to the controls (just like the patients w/ ocd) (controls weren t in the passionate stage). So as we go through process of falling in love, we experience it like an unhealthy disorder. Is the most intense phase of a relationship. Includes idealization of partner (focus on positive but not the negatives) Biologically driven (hormones etc) but there are cultural meanings associated w/ sadness. In north america & italy ()= a positive thing that starts a relationship. Chinese language has fewer happy lovey kind of words, love is.
