The Love Hypothesis By Ali Hazelwood Summary

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In Discovering Love, we learn about Harry Harlow and his studies with rhesus monkeys and love. Many psychologists agree on the theory that what we experience with our main caretaker as small children affects how we perceive love and react to closeness when we’re older. Harry Harlow believed in this theory and decided to test it on baby rhesus monkeys. Harlow used rhesus monkeys as subjects instead of humans because it was deemed unethical to put humans through such experiments, and rhesus monkeys and humans have similar behavior. He noticed that the baby monkeys became attached to the cloth diapers that were on the bottom of their cage and how badly they reacted when the diapers were taken away. With a new monkey, Harlow wouldn’t put in a cloth diaper and “it would thrive poorly even though it received complete nutritional and medical care.” Whenever Harlow did put the diapers in, the monkey became happier and healthier.

In the mid 1900s, Harry Harlow took investigated a new field of research and began studying the components between infant-mother love, especially the importance of contact comfort. Harlow was interested in manipulating the mother figure of infants to identify the root of bonds and love; but since this could easily become unethical to study with humans, he used rhesus monkeys. Based on Freud’s hypothesis, one would think that the importance of receiving milk would be the primary root of a bond between the infant and the mother, but Harlow found that contact comfort was incredibly important, even more so than receiving food (Hock, 2013).

Love can be an amazing thing and it is often said that nothing compares to the bond between a mother and her child, yet before a study called “The nature of love” which is discussed in the book “Forty studies that changed psychology: Explorations into the history psychological research,” our society had a very different understand about what caused this bond (Hock, 2013). In the book the author Roger Hock explores many different influential studies but in the section called “Discovering Love,” he takes a closer look into this study and discusses its importance (Hock, 2013). The influence of this study can be found in many different types of literature such as contemporary articles like “Building your own family,” which was published in Scientific American Mind (2014). This article implicitly provides further understand of the “The nature of love” study results and shows active efforts to continue building on the original theoretical ideas in order to change our views about human development (Jacobson, 2014). Even in modern text books like Psychology: Eighth Edition, can we find traces of the importance of this study. Thus this study not only provided a tremendous contribution to the field of Psychology but also changed society by altering its views on child rearing all together.

The author, Cormac McCarthy, shows in the book that love can overcome anything if there is still a little bit of faith left that is why the man still believes that the boy can turn society into a better place. The only thing that is driving this man to live is the boy because he needs to protect the boy at any cost. When a member of a bloodcult crew confronted the man about not using his gun because he only has two bullets left and using the boy as a hostage, the man instantly shoots him right in front of his son. The man thinks his killing was justifiable, but was questioned by his son if they were still the “good guys.” The father reassures him that they are still the good guys, or at least reassures his son to feel that way because he has

In “Doing it Wrong: Love in the Modern Age,” Alexander Mark digs deeper into the current dating culture and how millennials childhoods have shaped it. He touches on our childhoods versus our our institutions and how these two worlds collided and left us in a “cycle of emotional distance with each other.” Mark brings up how the failure of one generation easily established another's views on love. Being a lifetime member of Generation X, I strongly agree that this current cycle of hookups and just “seeing people” lack what it takes to become the framework of love, yet, the moment we we acknowledge this self destructive behavior the sooner we can break the cycle.

Some say, to love is to be willing to die. Others say, to love is to be willing to do whatever a loved one asks. Barbara Fredrickson says love is neither of these. In her book, Fredrickson attempts to redefine love through the biological microscope. The author compiles a variety of studies and research data to prove her claim that love is the product of neural coupling, oxytocin in the brain, and the work of the vagus nerve. Fredrickson presents a well-rounded claim, but there are some deficiencies that hinder the strength of her argument. Fredrickson’s use of vague language throughout this excerpt causes the reader to call into question the validity of said studies. In addition, Fredrickson’s use of first person point of view is a clever

“Rise and shine, campers. Rise and shine,” Tony Brown yells over the intercom directly above my bed.

In the 1985 movie “Love is Never Silent” it is set during the great depression and follows the Ryder family, Abel and Janice two deaf parents of two hearing children Margaret and Bradley. Abel works for a newspaper company on the printing press, Janice is a seamstress. The parents rely on the oldest child Margaret as their link to the hearing world by being their voice.

As human beings, our most important need, even more important that the physical ones, is the need of beeing loved. From the time we are born, our family`s touch is essensial in order to show us that we are loved and special and studies were made in order to prove that babies who do not receive affection, especially contact comfort, during the first months of life, grow up to be psychologically

Throughout the story, "Love is a Fallacy", Max Schulman, popular writer, uses different logical fallacies in different ways, some to teach and some to learn from. In the beginning, the story contains an anti-woman viewpoint and towards the end, transforms into an anti-man viewpoint. Max Schulman writes about all of his achievements compared to the little achievements of his roommate Petey and girlfriend Polly. Schulman states that the primary reason as to why Max wanted to date Polly was mainly due to the fact that he wanted a suitable wife and "Polly fitted these specification perfectly" (Schulman 366). Thus, proving how the author had an anti-woman approach in the beginning, because Max viewed women as property and a way to receive personal

How is social work a gendered profession and how will other intersecting identities (like race, class, nationality, ability, etc.) shape your practice and your opportunities for practice?

Does brain equal behavior? Some people have argued that they have difficulty saying it does because they find it hard to believe that our individual, tangible brain controls emotions that many consider to be intangible, such as being in love. This paper will discuss the role that the brain actually plays in love- why we are attracted to certain people, why we feel the way we do when we are around them, and whether or not this is enough to say that in the case of love, brain does equal behavior.

The human idea of love is quite possibly the most misunderstood in today’s society. Love can be between a man and woman, mother/father and their kids, or even really good friends. However, these relationships of love go through many interactions and stages to start and progress. Many psychological events must occur and be worked through in order to be successful. All relationships must endure the five perspectives of human behavior. These perspectives are biological, learning, social and cultural, cognitive, and psychodynamic influences.

Brian and Jessica met about 2 years ago in NP and started dating about 1 year after they met. They are both 19 this year, Brian is a Year 2 in the course Engineering with Business Management Programme, while Jessica is in Mass Communication. The couple got to know one another as they are in the same CCA. They got closer when Brian was elected as Captain, and Jessica was elected as Vice-President.