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The Science of Love, Desire and Attachment

Huberman Lab

Matching of Emotional Tone Can Be Good or Bad for Relationships

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If someone that you really care about is very, very stressed, you could also become very stressed. That's a form of emphatic matching. And complementary of autonomic matching can be good or bad. In other words, sometimes it's beneficial for a relationship to go into the same state as the other. Sometimes it's more beneficial for us to not go into thesame state as the others. This is a vital principle for how we fall in love and form attachments. It's actually part of the desire and mating process itself. The only way that new humans can be created is by way of sperm meeting egg.

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