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And what we're learning is going to shed some light on what the romantic writers and poets described as the "celestial openness" of the child's mind.
So we have a lot of very romantic ideas in our culture about individualism.
And our nation's really founded on a very romantic concept of individualism.
They're also totally out of sync in romantic relationships, which build gradually and subtly.
It turns out, merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet.
And also, my husband does a lot around the house, and would happily never see another romantic comedy as long as he lives.
Hopefully, I might get something a bit more dramatic and romantic before I die.
I mean, we're hardwired to be interested in beings that might be, if you will, competitors, or if you're the romantic sort, possibly even mates.
Beetles, I was reminded, have the most romantic flirtation in the animal kingdom.
There's a beautiful quote by the Romantic German composer Robert Schumann, who said, "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts, such is the duty of the artist."
But I want to start with my work on romantic love, because that's my most recent work.
I started out by trying to figure out what romantic love was by looking at the last 45 years of the psychological research and as it turns out, there's a very specific group of things that happen when you fall in love.
In trying to understand romantic love, I decided I would read poetry from all over the world, and I just want to give you one very short poem from eighth-century China, because it's an almost perfect example of a man who is focused totally on a particular woman.
Romantic love is very simple.
But the main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
I began to realize that romantic love is not an emotion.
The second of these three brain systems is romantic love: that elation, obsession of early love.
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
One of the last 10,000 years and the other, certainly of the last 25 years, that are going to have an impact on these three different brain systems: lust, romantic love and deep attachment to a partner.
We're also seeing a rise of romantic love.
Dopamine's associated with romantic love, and you can just fall in love with somebody who you're just having casual sex with.
But these three brain systems: lust, romantic love and attachment, aren't always connected to each other.
You can feel deep attachment to a long-term partner while you feel intense romantic love for somebody else, while you feel the sex drive for people unrelated to these other partners.
In fact, you can lie in bed at night and swing from deep feelings of attachment for one person to deep feelings of romantic love for somebody else.
Dopamine is associated with romantic love.
I've been studying romantic love and sex and attachment for 30 years.
And he knew from our work that if you go and do something very novel with somebody, you can drive up the dopamine in the brain, and perhaps trigger this brain system for romantic love.
There's magic to love! (Applause) But I will end by saying that millions of years ago, we evolved three basic drives: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment to a long-term partner.
It gets further and further away from the day, and light and seasons temper it in some way, and it's not that I'm a romantic.
And one night, the couple went out for a romantic restaurant meal.
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