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The Concept of Love

 

            How can the emotion Love truly be defined Everyone at some point in their lives have experienced it. Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal tenderness to contentment. It can be in relation to an emotion of strong appeal and personal fondness. The feeling can be righteous when representing human kindness, concern, and affection. Love seems to be the main underlying goal that we all search for at some point in our lifetimes. It is the one thing that we all in mankind have in common. There are many different types of love and how we as individuals may perceive it. Many scientist, philosophers and psychologist have spoke upon love from various angles but not have yet fairly established common terms on the meaning of love. Can the feeling be best examined from a biological, philosophy or psychology point of view Research has concluded that all the disciplines are important in analyzing love; however, more research needs to be done in order to define what love actually is, and how we can apply this knowledge in our everyday lives. .
             As the emotion is closely exmine by Dr. Zawia from NYU Medical Center, he states that we "fall in love with the brain". Individuals describe the emotion of love as "a shock to the system" or "electric." Research finds that ones pupil dilates when seeing something that is desired. "Looking into a lover's eyes is as staring into a fire with a shot of adrenaline rushing through the veins, your palms sweat, your breathing gets shallow, your skin feels hot, and pupils enlarge. The amygdala which is the center of the brain that processes emotion blazes with activity while dopamine, a 'feel good' chemical neurotransmitter associated with passion and addiction is released along with oxytocin, a hormone related to bonding." (Pincott, 4). In order to comprehend the brains response to love, we must analyze our limbic system which is well involved with the brains emotional reply to gain such fondness emotion .


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