#2 Deciphering the Brain's Love Map

Deciphering the Brain's Love Map


Love is bullshit
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by Quiet_Desperation (858215) Alter Relationship on Thursday October 13, @09:57PM (#13787710)
It's something we make up to excuse our lust, or as a reason to hang around with someone rather than be lonely. It's infatuation masquerading as something greater. It's obsession pretending to be something beautiful. It's so companies can peddle cards and flowers and diamonds and whatnot. It's so people can sit around and feel better than others. It's a weapon of mass destruction, and used every day to try and make those immune to it's fetid embrace feel like shit. It's a thin layer of brittle spackle of the gaping voids in all your lives.

Yeah, yeah... flamebait. You mod me down because you know I speak the hard truth.
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Human Instinct by Robert Winston
(Score:5, Interesting)
by Anonymous Writer (746272) Alter Relationship on Friday October 14, @04:36AM (#13788983)

I recall seeing an interesting BBC documentary called Human Instinct [bbc.co.uk] by Professor Robert Winston [amazon.co.uk] that explored the science behind attraction. There were heaps of interesting things they uncovered in the research studies he reported on.

They used morphing to create faces and had people rate the attractiveness of these faces. One experiment used faces that were morphed from female faces to male faces. They found that women tended to be more attracted to male faces that exhibited less masculine features generally. But ovulating women found male faces with more masculine features attractive. They also found that people tended to be more attracted to faces that have some similarities to their own. They did this by morphing a little bit of a test subject's face into some of the samples.

Another interesting test had to do with immune systems and scents. In their studies, they found that people with more different immune systems were more attracted to each other. In the example for the documentary, they tested five (or six- I forget) female subjects for certain immune system markers. They rated them from those that had markers more closely resembling Prof. Winston's own immune system to those that were more different. They then had these women sleep in shirts (over a span of nights, I think) so the shirts would smell. These shirts were placed in sealed jars. In the demonstration, Prof. Winston had to smell each jar and rate them from best to worst. Sure enough, the pattern in which he arranged them exactly matched the pattern of how his immune system compared to that of the shirt's owner.=====
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How the hell
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, @09:48PM (#13787664)
did a nerd domain name like "chemistry.com" got registered first by a dating service company?