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Title: Genetic Mates or Soul Mates


1
Genetic Mates or Soul Mates?
  • Whats love got to do (got to do) with it?

2
Genetic mates?
3
3 Types of Love Fisher et al, 2002
  • Lust
  • Attraction
  • Attachment

4
Attraction love at first sight?
smell
  • Attraction vs Attractiveness
  • Romance or a ruthless quest for a mate?
    Rumbelow (2004)
  • Smelly pits
  • Inbreeding vs Outbreeding

5
Love on the brainBartels and Zeki (2000, 2004)
Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Medial Insula
Putamen and Caudate Nucleus
6
Attraction madly in love
  • Phenylethylamine (PEA)
  • norapinephrine
  • dopamine
  • serotonin

7
Attachment
  • What is attachment?
  • Health Benefits (Damasio)
  • Cupids Chemicals
  • Oxytocin
  • Vasopressin

8
Attachment cont
  • The four year itch (Fisher)
  • Commitment and Exclusivity
  • Love Acts (Buss)
  • Resources
  • Mate-Guarding and Fidelity

9
Soul mates?
10
Soul Mates?
Love is blind
Valentines day
My other half
Soul mates
11
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    Toward a Unifying Theory and a Hybrid Science
    Annual Review Psychology Vol. 52 pp 607-628
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    Mind Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation
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12
Bibliography
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