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This is Love

The Brain in Love

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dessa spent the better part of two decades in love with the same person. They’d broken up and gotten back together over and over again. And even once they were broken up for good, she couldn’t give up hope that they still had a future. She says she felt kind of stuck. And so she started planning an experiment—part science project, part art project—to try to fall out of love. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. There's an anthropologist named Dr Helen Fisher. She studies love. She's been at it for more than 40 years.

0:42.0

And she says love is very simple. She said

0:46.5

timing is important, proximity is important, mystery is important.

0:53.0

She tries to understand what it means to be in love,

0:57.0

asking people things like,

0:59.0

what percentage of the day and night do you think about this person?

1:02.0

Would you die for this person?

1:06.1

And then, along with her colleagues Art Aaron and Lucy Brown,

1:10.9

she's put these people into an fMRI machine and showed them a picture of the person they love and watch their brain.

1:19.0

She said that love is not an emotion, it's a drive,

1:23.8

and one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth

1:26.8

for both joy and sorrow.

1:30.6

In one experiment, they looked at the brain activity of 17 people who were in love and felt that they were loved in return.

1:38.0

And then they looked at the brains of 15 people who had just been broken up with, but said they were still in love with the person.

1:47.0

I've been watching a TED Talk given by a woman named Dr Helen Fisher.

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