SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Platonic Love, Endogamy, Cortisol
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Rc: chapter 4 - love knows no reason. Convenional wisdom locates love in the world of passion - an experience that can make us irraional, impulsive and oblivious to real-life events that happen around us. Nothing logical about love, love bows to emoion not reason. Proxmire stated that love is strictly an emoional journey, cupids arrow deies logic, he hoped scienist would stop studying love but the study of love is now a science: second thoughts about the new: the science of love. For centuries people treated love as a magical, mysical afair, past 50 years it has been a science of love. Researchers on the panel of personality & social psychology explored love using perspecive looking at 34 cohabitaing couples. Couples were tested for coritsol levels (stress hormone) before, during and ater being separated for 4-7 days tested showed when physically separated there was a higher corisol level and poorer sleep than when together.
