10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Love You Probably Don’t Know

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Love is an exciting and wonderful feeling. It is sweet, it is painful, it is dreadful and it is pure. Because of love, people are able to see the world through rose-colored glasses and lose reason. Love is the most precious and the most spontaneous thing that will happen in everybody’s life. We exist to be loved and to love. This list contains some mind-blowing facts about love you probably don’t know. Let’s take a look at these facts.

Blushing

According to a study conducted by UC Berkeley, individuals who are embarrassed easily are more likely to be generous, trustworthy and monogamous.

Love Warms Up Your Whole Body

In a study that asked individuals to map out where they experienced different emotions, most individuals said that love sparked activity across their whole body. The emotional system in your brain sends signals to your whole body to deal with certain situations.

Creativity

According to research, reminders of love influences creative thinking because they are linked with more abstract and distant considerations – long-term relationships, intimacy and commitment. Reminders of sex influences concrete thinking, making an individual focus more on concrete details than on long-term goals or plans.

Dangerous Situation

Research has shown that if a woman and a man meet each other in a dangerous or risky situation, then they are more likely to fall in love with each other than if they were to meet in a more average setting such as at work or at a cafe.

Obsession

Love causes a drop in the chemical serotonin, which is a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, causing people to be obsessed with their partner.

Physical Pain

Holding hands with the one you love can ease fear, stress and physical pain.

Strangers

When two strangers are forced to maintain eye contact and talk for sometime, it can make them fall in love.

In a study, strangers of the opposite sex were placed together in a room for one and a half hours where they talked about personal details and then gazed into each other’s eyes without speaking. Several people felt an intense attraction for each other, and two even married each other 6 months later.

Kissing Helps Men Live Longer

Males who kiss their partners in the morning live, on average, 5 years longer than males who don’t.

Memory

Italian researchers discovered that falling in love increases levels of a hormone that enhances memory by stimulating the growth of new brain cells.

Right Or Left

According to neuroscientist Onur Gunturkun, when individuals kiss they are more likely to tilt their heads to the right than to the left. The scientist spent two and a half years studying kisses in public areas and discovered that only 1 in 3 individuals lean to the left when going in for a kiss.