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“ In a recent study, Loving and his colleagues measured the cortisol levels in a sample of women who self-identified as being “madly, deeply in love” with their partners. He found that when these women were asked to reflect on their relationship with their partner, their cortisol levels spiked. Loving also found that the cortisol levels stayed elevated for significantly longer in the women who are more “relationship-focused”—who are the kind of people who tend to ruminate on relationships regardless of whether or not they happen to be in one at the time.
“One of the things that’s most fascinating to me,” says Loving, “is how our own individual disposition—how we view the world—interacts with basic biological processes. People like me, for instance, who spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, are going to be more affected by these physiological processes.
“One of the things that’s most fascinating to me,” says Loving, “is how our own individual disposition—how we view the world—interacts with basic biological processes. People like me, for instance, who spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, are going to be more affected by these physiological processes.
Sex and the City and He’s Just Not That Into You explained.
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Hmm…interesting..I’ve been thinking about the whole womanly focus on relationships generally, modally, perhaps merely stereotypically (but we all know, not)…and this research tidbit is fascinating. Surely related to the SITC and HJNTIY stuff, but how exactly?
