Love At First Sight : Does It Exist?

Some people believe there is someone in the world that is their true love while others believe that you fall in love with a person after getting to know them. Romeo and Juliet, a pair of star-crossed lovers are believed by some to have been true love. While there is no proof of this, it is hard to believe in instantly falling in love with someone. What Romeo and Juliet had was not true love but merely infatuation because Romeo was impulsive, Juliet was inexperienced and they had spent a limited time together.

The questions of "How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate?” are asked to Wanderer during the novel and she answers it with “Love simply is where it is.” This answered all of my questions, Jared loves Melanie for her mind just as much as her body and Wanderer in the end of the book is inserted into a new body but Ian still loves her in this new body and Wanderer in this new body still loves Jaime, so “Love simply is where it is.” This makes me think about the idea of ‘true love’ or ‘love at first sight’ are either of these things truly possible, I believe that these things in a way can be possible for example, you could see someone for the first time and have your attraction to them but you could never know what the future holds you just know that you are attracted to them. This can be seen in game shows such as ‘Take Me Out’, in a part of this game show the competitor writes down their ‘love at first sight’, and the end of their game the female has the choice of finding out who the man’s ‘love at fight sight’ was, most of the time they aren’t the person the man wrote, but sometimes it is, this shows that love can be anywhere and its not

According to the article, three factors are present when you fall in love: “Studies have found: You have to like the other person’s physical appearance; you have to find his or her personality desirable, and you have to feel the other person likes you” The teens had declared their love for each other within 3 hours of meeting. All they knew at the time was that they found each other attractive. This shows that they were infatuated with each other rather than in love because they knew nothing about each other except their

All three sources claim that love at first sight is real. By using science and experiments, this claim can be backed up with evidence. Some people believe that love at first sight is real, while others don’t really believe it. It usually takes time to get to know someone and fall in love, but love at first sight may actually occur in a situation.

McNulty, J. K., Neff, L. A., & Karney, B. R. (2008). Beyond initial attraction: Physical

In Mandy Len Catron’s Modern Love essay, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” she refers to a study made by the psychologist Arthur Aron over 20 years ago, which explores whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a

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Sarah Gehrke is one example. She researched from the Journal of Psychophysiology as well as online medical articles from NCBI to come up with the scientific steps of falling in love. She explains falling in love through a more psychological view. Gehrke writes, according to Arthur Aron and his science-based study, “On average, the mind of a person takes between 90 seconds to 4 minutes to determine whether it is struck by love or not”. One may think, what are the determining factors of this? Aron’s study concludes that body language is the major factor. Over fifty percent is given to body language meaning when one meets a person the simple body activity of the person their meeting will trigger the brain to determine whether or not it is receiving signals of love. Interestingly, thirty-eight percent of the brain’s decision is based on the suitor’s voice, voice as in the tone and the frequency that it changes. For example, a deeper tone may be found more attractive. The reaction of the suitor to the conversation and the suitor’s word choice also plays in to the decision, but only less than ten percent

Both articles claim that love at first sight exists. There are strengths in each article that make it believable. In the article “Science Explains Instant Attraction” there are many strengths that make it believable. There is research evidence, quotes from the people to who ran the experiment and scientific terms for parts of the brain they were talking about all makes it believable. An example of research evidence is, “Some 63 percent of the time their initial , photograph based interest in dating a person was baked up by their real decision,”. An example of quotes from the people running the experiment is, “We joked quite a bi that we hoped there might be a wedding someday, but no invitations have come through yet,” This was said by

The series of studies that are discussed in the readings and relate brain to love have shown that a specific form of love called positive resonance can exist even between complete strangers and this is evident in the brain (Fredrickson, ). Brains of strangers can simply start following the same wavelength, showing that two people have developed a set of positive feelings, which rewires their brains and makes them somewhat closer to each other. Turns our verbal or even audio communication to people can help you develop this bond. Another experiment proves that love is not really unconditional, and we don’t feel the same compassion or empathy for strangers as we do for the people we know and love. According to the experiment conducted in Taipei, same areas of the brain get activated

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Being teens, it can be easy to confuse love with lust and desire. Lusting is a great need to have sex with a certain person. And desire is almost like lust, but desire is not just with sex, desire can be targeted at either a person, or even an object. The wanting of a person is most common though, like in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo lusts after Juliet after seeing her at a party. And in fact, we can even connect a saying into this, we all know the saying "Love at first sight," but that may not truly exist. It could, and probably should be known as "lust at first sight," but not love. I don't think you can walk into a building see someone and immediately fall in love with them, at least I hope not you'd be known as a Romeo.

The first stage of romantic love begins with attraction. Whether you have been best friends for a long time or you just met the person, you begin your romantic relationship when there is that feeling of