True Love

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What is love? With half of first time American marriages ending in divorce by the 20th anniversary, and infidelity being widespread, Science Vs asks: have we been lied to by our love songs? On today’s episode we explore: What happens to the brain when we fall in love? Is the compulsion to stay together biological? And, is monogamy really unnatural? We talk to Dr. Helen Fisher, Professor Larry Young, and Dr. Dieter Lukas about their labors of love. Our Sponsors:Everyday Bravery - Listen to Everyday Bravery, a podcast from Prudential, by going to everydaybravery.comVirgin Atlantic - Listen to their podcast, The Venture, wherever you get your podcastsZiprecruiter - try Ziprecruiter for free by going to ziprecruiter.com/sciencevs Credits: This episode has been produced by Wendy Zukerman, Heather Rogers, Ben Kuebrich, Shruti Ravindran and Rose Reid. Kaitlyn Sawrey is our senior producer. We’re edited by Annie Rose Strasser. Extra editorial help from Alex Blumberg. Production assistance from Stevie Lane. Fact checking by Ben Kuebrich. Music production and original music written by Bobby Lord. Special thanks to Joseph Lavelle Wilson, Austin Mitchell and to Professor Karen L Kramer, Professor Garth Fletcher, Dr. Alexander G. Ophir, Professor David Barash, Richard Bethleham . Check out Gail and Rose Reid's podcast Details Please. Selected References:CDC - Data on First Marriages in the United StatesHelen Fisher fMRI Paper on Early-Stage LoveLarry Young Review Paper on the Neurobiology of Pair BondingDieter Lukas’s Paper on the Evolution of Monogamy in MammalsThe monogamy camp - review paper arguing “we evolved to be monogamous” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.
0:08.0	On today's show we're pitting facts against fairy tales and we're exploring the science
0:13.9	of love.
0:15.5	And by that, we mean true love.
0:19.5	That one true love.
0:21.6	That person you're supposed to find and spend the rest of your life with.
0:27.0	So at this moment right now on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you guys love each other?
0:31.0	I love 1 to 10.
0:32.0	Oh yeah?
0:33.0	Yeah, I'm not doing this.
0:34.0	I'm not going to say 10.
0:35.0	About 2 to 10.
0:37.0	I'm going to say 95, but I think it's a 10.
0:41.2	This is Gail and Matt Reed and they've been together for 44 years.
0:45.9	44, it'll be 44 this fall.
0:49.0	Gail and Matt met at college and still remember those first moments when they got together.
0:54.6	I remember that we were walking in the rain in the field behind where the chapels were.
1:01.4	And he went up to the, it was like a podium outside.
1:08.0	And so I stood up at the lecture and I began to recite something from the beginning of
1:15.2	one of the doors albums.
1:18.2	But the wonderful thing was she didn't know I was quoting an album.
1:21.1	She thought I was being original, which is really fabulous.
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