Why We Fall in Love

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Why we fall in love Why we fall in love Love is considered to be one of the most beautiful feelings that people can feel. Actually love cannot be considered only as feeling but it is different things interacting with each other. All of us fall in love. We fall in love with our pets, friends, boy friends, family, parents, strangers, places, memories and many others. As long as we live we fall in love. Without love we cannot live, therefore they always say that we should love life. So we are going to discuss according to or based on the biological, psychological and social origins in falling in love or attraction. * Explanation through biological point of view: Based on neurobiology of love ; Fisher (2004) suggested that love is a human universal and evolution has produced three distinct motivational brain systems in birds and mammals to direct courtship, mating, reproduction and parenting: attraction, the sex drive and attachment. The three systems interact with each other to produce the combination of emotions, motivations and behaviors associated with ‘love’. According to Fisher (2004) attraction is similar to human romantic love in animals. Attraction is specialized by increased energy, focused attention on a specific mate, obsessive following, possessive mate-guarding and motivating to win preferred mating partner. Attraction developed to motivate individuals to select and focus complete attention on a favored partner. The sex drive is characterized by strong need for sexual gratification. Testosterone in both males and females play a major role in sex drive. The sex drive is evolved to produce offspring. This can be supported by a study done by Fisher et al. (2003). Fisher investigated the neural mechanism associated with the attraction system (romantic love). He used 17 participants who were ten of them females and other seven are males. They were aged
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