• Question: What is love, why do we have love?

    Asked by ladysovereignezza to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 22 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Humans are social animals and love serves in connectedness between us. One of the hormones that is being studied in relation to human connections is oxytocin. It’s released after sex or after a mother breastfeeds her baby. Now we know that oxytocin makes us look at the eyes of other people, and maybe that’s why we feel such love when we look in each other’s eyes.

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Love is all about oxytocin, a hormone released from the pituitary gland which is commonly associated with social pair bonding, amongst other things, This was first demonstrated in studies on the American prairie vole – a rodent which mates for life.

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