Why we love: Helen Fisher
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Where is the love?
If you want to know where love is, you can find out by following the path from your nose to the brain via the epigenetic effects of food odors and pheromones on hormone-secreting nerve cells, not one that somehow links pictures to love and sexual desire. There’s no model for that!
Love is a receptor-mediated event: the pervasive influence of the late Robert L. Moss
The molecular biology of how nutrient chemicals calibrate the survival of individuals and how the metabolism of nutrients to pheromones that standardizes and controls species survival appears to link the nature and nurture of receptor-mediated behavioral development across species.
Is Love in the Air? Human Pheromones and Axillary Chemistry by George Preti
…the only sense that’s common to all species on this planet is the sense of smell…
How pheromones work (in 57 words or more)
Scent of Eros products enhance the chemical appeal of other people with pheromones. This enhancement increases interest.
Pheromones and falling in love (circa 1974)
I rediscovered this citation while searching for information on neural pathways that influence the secretion of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). That’s how mammalian pheromones influence our behavior, which doesn’t happen in Kallmann’s syndrome. It’s a syndrome associated with congenital anosmia. Infants are born with no sense of smell, and there are other symptoms to be … Pheromones and falling in love (circa 1974)
A fundamental attribution error: Love at first sight
Whether you like, love, dislike, or hate another person or particular food, your response is one that has been conditioned by odors.
