If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- What's the secret to making love last in a world of endless swipes and fleeting connections?
- Are you curious about how your brain responds to love, and what that means for your relationships?
- Can understanding the neuroscience of love help you avoid heartbreak and find true connection in the age of dating apps and social distancing?
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Key Takeaways from Wired for Love
- Understand why love is an essential biological necessity wired into our evolutionary history, rather than just an optional romantic ideal.
- Discover the surprising subconscious factors that drive instant attraction, from contrasting immune system scents to facial features that mirror your own.
- Learn how a cascade of brain chemicals alters your perception when falling in love, using norepinephrine to distort time and oxytocin to build deep trust.
- Find out how love makes you a sharper thinker by stimulating sophisticated brain regions like the angular gyrus to boost creativity and intuition.
- Explore the universal cognitive and physical benefits of healthy relationships, which include faster mental processing speeds, better sleep, and improved immune function.
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Wired for Love — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Love blooms within the brain.
Chapter 3: Love makes us sharper, more inventive thinkers.
Chapter 4: Human brains are wired to bond with other brains.
Chapter 5: Love and lust feed off of each other.
Chapter 6: Grief and loss can wreak deadly harm on the body and mind.
Wired for Love Summary & Overview
Wired for Love (2022) combines fascinating neuroscientific research with a captivating personal story to reveal some of the secrets behind that great human mystery: love. Love is often thought of as a topic best left to poets and musicians – but it can and should be studied as a legitimate scientific question. In a world that is constantly throwing up new challenges to romance, from online dating to global pandemics, an understanding of and respect for love is more important than ever before.
Who Should Listen to Wired for Love?
- Hopeless romantics
- Neuroscience and psychology fanatics
- Anyone who is, has been, or wants to be in love
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