A Psychological & Physiological Phenomenon: Love
The feeling of love can be seen in songs, poems, films and other many things in human’s life. The nature of love has been discussed by physiologists and psychologists for many years. They have tried to come up with an explanation of love and how it occurs. Many physiologists assert that love is just about a series of chemical reaction in the brain. Helen Fisher, in her text “The Nature and Evolution of Romantic Love”, argues that love is caused by hormones and chemicals in the brain and divides love into three physiological stages and believes that love is for reproductive purposes. While physiologists base their argument on biological issues, psychologists approach the issue from psychological aspect. Nathaniel Branden, in his text “The Roots of Romantic Love”, argues that love is about experience of joy and it is to make companionship possible in society and divides love into two psychological stages. It seems, love has both psychological and physiological components, the former is about the unique thing which enables human beings to think, feel and decide, the latter is about the inevitable reality of being a chemical and biological body. Hence, love is both psychological and physiological phenomenon in terms of its purpose, stages and characteristics.
Love is both psychological and physiological since it has both psychological and physiological stages. To begin with, love has physiological stages which influence what one feels when s/he falls in love. By the effect of hormones and some chemical reactions in the brain, body gets prepared to fall in love easily. The changes in the level of some certain hormones and so the certain reactions’ frequency in the brain guide one’s body to only thing: Love. Fisher calls this stage as attraction stage, and states that when PEA increases by the effect of MAO inhibitors the feeling of exhilaration increases and that increase prepares a convenient...