What is love?

The Scientific Explanation

Love is a chemical, its purpose is to help continue the species by encouraging us to reproduce and to care and bring up our children. Scientists are discovering that the same chemical process that takes place with addiction takes place when we fall in love. Some researchers say that we tend to be attracted to members of the opposite sex who remind us of our parents or even ourselves.

Psychologist David Perrett, at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland performed an experiment where he digitised and morphed photos of a number of participants into the opposite sex. He then asked them to choose which they felt most attracted to, he found that the participants always preferred the morphed version of there own face, without recognizing it as their own face.

Another factor is Pheromones, In animals pheromones are found in scents, sweat, prints, urine etc. They help them to find a mate and to identify a mate who’s immune system is different enough from their own to ensure healthy offspring.Human Pheromones were discovered in 1986 in human sweat. One experiment conducted involved women smelling the sweaty t-shirts of a group of men. They then had to select which t-shirt they were most attracted to, like animals most of the women chose the t-shirt of the man who’s immune system was most different to hers.