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3 Scientific Reasons Why We Lose The Spark and 3 Ways To Get It Back

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Dopamine Fuelled Passionate Love

Anthropologist Helen Fisher did some great research. The team found a group of unicorns, not real unicorns, but people had been married for an average of 21.4 years and reported they were still very much in love. They scanned their brains while these people looked at pictures of a familiar acquaintance, a close long term friend, an acquaintance with whom they were less familiar and their partner. Unlike when they looked at photos of others, when they looking at pictures of their partners, they showed activities in areas of the brain that are associated with all three of our basic human drives.

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