Interesting love facts

Many researchers have speculated that we tend to go for members of the opposite sex who remind us of our parents. Some have even found that we tend to be attracted to those who remind us of ourselves. In fact, cognitive psychologist David Perrett, at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, did an experiment in which he morphed a digitized photo of the subject's own face into a face of the opposite sex. Then, he had the subject select from a series of photos which one he or she found most attractive. According to Dr. Perrett, his subjects always preferred the morphed version of their own face (and they didn't recognize it as their own).

Professor Arthur Aron, of the State University of New York at Stonybrook, has studied what happens when people fall in love and has found that simply staring into each other's eyes has tremendous impact. In an experiment he conducted, Aron put strangers of the opposite sex together for 90 minutes and had them discuss intimate details about themselves. He then had them stare into each other's eyes for four minutes without talking. The results? Many of the subjects felt a deep attraction for their partner after the experiment, and two even ended up getting married six months later. WOW lol

In romantic love, when two people have sex, oxytocin is released (yup yup got it from that drama Professor King hehehe), which helps bond the relationship. According to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, the hormone oxytocin has been shown to be, "associated with the ability to maintain healthy interpersonal relationships and healthy psychological boundaries with other people". When it is released during orgasm, it begins creating an emotional bond - the more sex, the greater the bond.