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Human Emotion

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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The Effects of Limerance on the Brain

There's such a riot of hormones in your brain that you are actually addicted to that. People, murders happen because people feel rejected by somebody they are attracted to. You can make other people feel it if you're very good at doing that. Similarly, disgust is also a great way of doing that. It's using using love and hate together as a tool. America spent loads of money trying to research how to make people love America and hate Russia. Do we have any way of knowing if animals do this? They probably experience something. So that's its own thorny topic.

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