Neuroscience
Lust or Love?
Further Reading (and viewing):
The Science of Love - Link to watch the entire short film (only if you live in the U.S.)
The EEG Mixer - Neurocritic classic
- Robert Sternberg: Understanding Love
I have always solved my problems through psychology, but usually by creating my own theories rather than by using other people's theories. I was at a point in my life once in which I was in an intimate relationship that seemed not to be working as...
- Behind The News
Connecting you with the psychological science behind the news: Hips do lie, women's sway can't be trusted (Daily Telegraph). Sexy walks keep men off scent (BBC News Online). Link to the journal source. Link to the lead author. -- Men motivated...
- The Electroencephalogram Cocktail Party
In 2005, filmmaker Joyce Draganosky made a short entitled The Science of Love, where... ...the battle between reason and emotion takes center stage. A professor, who believes she has found a way of determining scientifically whether someone is in...
- Trust = Love?
An article in a recent issue of Science suggests that the emotion of trust "lives" near the emotion of love in the brain. Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Neuroimaging Laboratoryused fMRI imaging and an investment game to pinpoint a...
- A Pretty Picture
I do love brains. In fact, I love brains a lot. Heck, I love everyone's brains! And you know, when you were a kid and you wanted to buy a packet of cereal because it let you know there was a cool toy FREE INSIDE?! It works kinda the same way with...
Neuroscience
EEG Speed Dating
Lust or Love?
The Science of LoveThe director seems to have modeled her lead character after Helen Fisher, even down to the combination of evolutionary anthropology with brain imaging. Joy Hirsh at Columbia was a scientific consultant.
In Joyce Draganosky's The Science of Love, the battle between reason and emotion takes center stage. A professor, who believes she has found a way of determining scientifically whether someone is in love, clashes with her department chair, a woman who thinks love and attraction are far too complex to be mapped according to the certainties of science.
Further Reading (and viewing):
The Science of Love - Link to watch the entire short film (only if you live in the U.S.)
The EEG Mixer - Neurocritic classic
- Robert Sternberg: Understanding Love
I have always solved my problems through psychology, but usually by creating my own theories rather than by using other people's theories. I was at a point in my life once in which I was in an intimate relationship that seemed not to be working as...
- Behind The News
Connecting you with the psychological science behind the news: Hips do lie, women's sway can't be trusted (Daily Telegraph). Sexy walks keep men off scent (BBC News Online). Link to the journal source. Link to the lead author. -- Men motivated...
- The Electroencephalogram Cocktail Party
In 2005, filmmaker Joyce Draganosky made a short entitled The Science of Love, where... ...the battle between reason and emotion takes center stage. A professor, who believes she has found a way of determining scientifically whether someone is in...
- Trust = Love?
An article in a recent issue of Science suggests that the emotion of trust "lives" near the emotion of love in the brain. Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Neuroimaging Laboratoryused fMRI imaging and an investment game to pinpoint a...
- A Pretty Picture
I do love brains. In fact, I love brains a lot. Heck, I love everyone's brains! And you know, when you were a kid and you wanted to buy a packet of cereal because it let you know there was a cool toy FREE INSIDE?! It works kinda the same way with...