Posted on 01/17/2011 3:08:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The 20th century adage that "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" is a myth, according to new research suggesting that our brains are wired exactly the same way when it comes to love.
The self-help bestseller, published in 1992, suggested that when it came to relationships men and women thought and acted very differently -- in other words it was as if they came from different planets.
But new scientific research shows we actually act very similarly when we are in love -- whether we are male, female, heterosexual or homosexual.
Professor Semir Zeki and John Romaya at University College London looked at brain activity during a love affair.
They asked 24 volunteers to view pictures of their romantic partners, as well as pictures of friends of the same sex as their partners but to whom they were romantically indifferent.
At the same time their brains were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Everyone knows the Venus/Mars analogy is true innately.
It was known to the Greeks when they named their gods/planets.
“...such a huge sample size too!”
Actually, that’s a pretty big study for fMRI work. Those studies usually have more authors than subjects. It costs a small fortune to run each subject and you get a huge amount of data from each one.
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