Sunday, January 18, 2009

True Love for a Lifetime

Brain researchers claim that contrary to their expectations, married couples can in fact still be passionately in love 20 years after the wedding. I'm not as convinced by brain MRIs as they are, but is this result really really a surprise? It was to some people:

Aron said when he first interviewed people claiming they were still in love after an average of 21 years he thought they were fooling themselves: “But this is what the brain scans tell us and people can’t fake that.”

I remember being told years ago that a large number of speech pathologists had had speech impediments as children. Maybe psychologists are similar. Perhaps unhappy people are drawn to the profession; people who are unhappy themselves and don't know many happy people.

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