Pschobiology of Love and It’s Implication.

Abstract

This paper explores the physiological basis of the emotion of love, and how these could be interpreted or linked to overt expressions and behavior. It hypothesizes that the limbic system accumulates emotional energy, is capable of discharging same, and that if it became saturated with positive emotional energy, it would radiate same, thereby giving the bearer an attractive magnetic field (aura), or the opposite state as the case may be. This model holds that positive emotion (interpreted as attractive, charming, or love), and negative emotion (interpreted as repulsive, unattractive, hate, and others) are at two opposite ends of a continuum. Hence, on the emotional scale, there is a mid or neutral point at which the person is neither ‘very warm’ nor ‘very cold’. The involvement of the higher centers of the brain in organizing, interpreting, and channeling of emotional behaviors pointedly shows that even the language of love is processed much the same way languages of other emotions are processed. Indeed love is perceptual, the concept of one person one lover has no physiological support, rather, social norms determine deferential expressions of love and hate, given the level of emotional energy.

Key words: emotion; love; psychobiology; emotional energy.