Scientists have created a map of where in the body people feel different types of love. For example, romantic and parental love and also how strongly people feel these emotions. It’s a development that sheds more light on the differences in the human experience.
Philosophers have long distinguished between different types of love, including self-love, romantic attachment, and platonic love (non-sexual and non-romantic love).
Meanwhile, psychologists and neuroscientists have also sought to further understand the behavioral and neural signal systems involved in emotions and the human body related to romantic and parental love.
It is not clear, however, whether and how much the models made by philosophers relate to real experiences of love, and to what extent they are merely nominal creations.
In a new study recently published in the journal Philosophical Psychology, researchers attempted to distinguish between 27 different types of love.
He sought to examine how these types of love are experienced as embodied emotions and how these experiences relate to each other.
Study co-author Partelli Rein from Aalto University says: ‘It is noteworthy, but not surprising, that the types of love associated with intimate relationships are similar and are felt most intensely. .’
The study surveyed hundreds of participants online about how they experienced 27 different types of love. For example, romantic love, sexual love, parental love and love of friends, strangers, nature, God, or self.
Participants were asked where in their body they felt different types of love and how intense the feeling was physically and mentally.
The researchers also asked how the participants felt different types of love, both physically and mentally. How pleasant the sensation was and how it was related to being touched.
Participants were also asked to rate the types of intimacy they felt.
‘Our study provides the first mapping of embodied experiences associated with different types of love,’ say the researchers.
The results show that different types of love form a continuum from weak to more intense.
The study said: ‘We suggest that theoretically ‘love’ has ‘no clear boundaries.’ Love is like a big group of feelings, including different types of love.
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Although all these types of love were strongly felt in the brain, they differed throughout the rest of the body, the researchers say.
They say that some types of love are felt only in the chest while others are felt all over the body.
But according to studies, the strongest forms of love are felt most widely throughout the body.
Researchers say that types of love that are particularly close to each other have a sexual or romantic dimension.
Researchers also found that the more strongly a type of love is felt in the body, the more strongly it is felt in the mind and the more pleasurable it is reported to be.
According to Dr Rain: ‘As we move from more intensely felt love to less intensely felt forms, the feelings in the chest weaken. For example, love of strangers or intellect may be associated with thinking.’
He further said that ‘It may also be that there are pleasant feelings in the head. This is something that should be investigated further.’
However, studies have pointed out that there may also be cultural differences between people.
According to Dr. Raine: ‘If the same study had been conducted in a highly religious circle, the love of God would have been the love that was felt most intensely. Similarly, if it were a matter of loving parents, as in our ongoing project of studying the mind, then love for children could be the most intense kind of love.’
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