Pratica di Shadowing: V.O. Love at first sight: what does science say? Helen Fisher, neurobiologist and anthropologist - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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What is love?
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Love is a lot of different things to different people.
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But as a scientist, I think it's basically comes from three different brain circuits.
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Sex drive, feelings of intense romantic love, and feelings of deep attachment.
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They're different brain systems.
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I think the sex drive gets you out there looking for a whole range of partners.
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I think romantic love enables you to focus your mating energy on just one at a time. And
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that third brain system of attachment enables you to stick with
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this person at least long enough to raise a single child through infancy.
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So most people when they ask about love, they're asking about romantic love.
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And that has a very particular number of traits.
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The first thing that happens when you fall in love with somebody is somebody takes on what I call special meaning.
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Everything about them is special.
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Their car is different from every other car in the parking lot, the street they live on, the music that they like everything about them becomes special.
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And then you focus on them.
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You can list what you don't like about them, but then you sweep that aside and focus on what you do.
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So love at first sight is actually very easy to explain.
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You know, I and my colleagues have put over 100 people into a brain scanner using functional MRI.
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And we found it's a very primitive pathway through the brain.
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Romantic love is a very primitive, basic pathway through the brain.
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As a matter of fact, the basic factory that generates dopamine that gives you
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that feeling lies right near the factories that orchestrate thirst
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and hunger thirst and hunger keep you alive today romantic love drives you to form a relationship
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and put your dna into tomorrow so we call it a survival mechanism
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and it can be triggered instantly you know just like fear can be triggered instantly.
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Romantic love can be triggered instantly.
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As you grow up, you build what I call an unconscious love map,
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an unconscious and conscious list of what you're looking for in a partner.
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And then when the timing is right,
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somebody walks in to the grocery store or or the music event,
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or the museum, or the restaurant, or wherever you are.
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They fit within your love map.
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Right age, size, shape, background, come up and smile at you, flirt with you in certain ways.
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It can trigger that brain circuitry for romantic love and you're going to fall in love immediately.
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But the timing has to be right.
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Proximity has to be right.
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The person has to fit within your love map.
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And in my case, lighting would be good.
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But the bottom line is we're built to fall in love.
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What's interesting is the brain circuitry for attachment takes a lot longer to set in.
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So you can fall madly in love with somebody before you feel any form of attachment to them.
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Attachment takes time.
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You get to get to know the person.
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You know, you got to know a lot about somebody.
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What we found in our data, when we put people into the brain scanner who had just fallen happily and madly in love,
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brain circuitry for romantic love, So easy to see.
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But the brain region linked with feelings of attachment did not activate at all.
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It was only after several months, often after about 17 months, when you really get to know somebody, you begin to trust them.
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You begin to have confidence in them.
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You respect them and they respect you.
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They make you laugh.
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You do things together.
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You begin to feel that cosmic connection and the attachment is growing then.
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So romantic love, easy to explain boom, can trigger instantly, just like the fear system or the anger system, but attachment grows.
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The idea that love is blind, does also have a neural foundation?
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Yes, there's brain regions right behind your forehead linked with decision-making and planning.
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And activity in those brain regions begins to shut down.
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So you can overlook all kinds of things about the person.
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Love can be blind because those brain centers aren't activating and saying, wait a minute, you know, he's married or wait a minute, he lives in a different country,
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he won't be back, it'll be a summer fling.
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Wait a minute.
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Those brain regions, you know, you're overcome with, oh, he's so cute, he's so funny, he's so nice, he's such a good kisser.
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And the brain regions for decision making are really sort of shutting down.
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This is one of the reasons that I tell people, you know, if you fall madly in love with somebody, get to know them for a couple of years before you
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really settle in with them as you get to know somebody as the attachment grows
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or as you begin to see real problems in the relationship
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because activity will come back in those decision-making areas
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and you can begin to see a little more clearly
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but love is blind as a matter of fact you know
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before i put people into the brain scanner i would ask them a lot of questions
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because these are expensive machines it takes a lot of time got to make sure they're in love
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and i would ask them what do you not like about him or her.
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And they could list what they didn't like, but then they swept that aside and just focused on what they did like.
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Love is blind.
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Chaucer was right.
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Thank you.

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