Psychology 3724F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jodie Foster, Hypervigilance, Shared Experience

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3724F/G
• Professor: Lorne Campbell

Document Summary

Romantic novels most popular literary genre in 2009. Love as commitment device: pair bonding in humans. Commitment device to keep parents of children together long enough to help infants survive to reproductive age. Romantic love is an evolved adaptation designed to bond partners together: if this is true, love should possess certain characteristics: Should be associated w/ specific hormones, biological markers. Successful pair bonding should be associated w/ good health & successful repro. Only in one culture did an ethnographer claim that romantic: biological and behavioural markers of love love didn"t exist, love and mating behaviours are guided by 3 distinct emotion systems: Motivates individuals to search out sexual opportunities. Associated with estrogen & androgen in brain. Directs individual"s attention twd specific mates, leads to craving for emotional union w/ person and is associated w/ high levels of dopamine, norepinephrine and low levels of serotonin in brain.