Stephanie Nettles is a kind of Carrie Bradshaw of psychology and cognitive science. Stephanie also lives and works in New York, but not in Manhattan, and also interested in relationships and dating. However, Stephanie does not conform to talk to their friends about these issues: Stephanie invites volunteers to his lab to help answer the questionnaires, conducting experiments and even take magnetic resonance imaging of their brains for them. The conclusions reached Stephanie not published in The New York Star, as Carrie. Stephanie publishes its findings on the passionate love, friendship, self-awareness, as well as intentions, desires and actions of people, among other topics, in journals in psychology and neuroscience. In fact, recently published, together with some colleagues, an article on the understanding of motor intention between couples in love in the journal Journal of Social and Personal Relationship s . Stephanie Nettles and colleagues Nisa Patel, Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli and Scott T. Grafton wanted to deepen the understanding intent between couples in love passionately and its relation to embodied cognition (or Embodied cognition). That is, wanted to know more about love is that couples are able to understand the intention and predict the actions of their half, and how this relates to the way they integrate their experiences. |
Mutual understanding of the actions of a pair occurs when one of the members guess the other's intention even before he or she completed the action. For example when a member of loving dyad "knows" that the other will take water simply by the way that grips the glass.
The first part of the New York team's experiment consisted of placing advertisements in which couples are asked "passionate love" and dyads of friends. Once the curious and / or enthusiastic volunteers arrived, the next task was to distinguish volunteers who actually were "passionate love" for those who just experienced a "love of company" ( companionate love) . The latter refers to one that can happen between best friends, where there is affection and commitment, but where there is not necessarily sexual arousal. Diada passionately in love. Author unknown.
is interesting to note that even though close friends dyads corresponding reaction times were similar to those passionate dyads, suggesting that it is precisely the loving relationship which facilitates understanding observed actions and not just the proximity. The authors attribute the results to the existence of implicit facilitation (implicit priming ): couples in love passionately quickly understand the intention under certain stimuli. That is, the reaction occurs at an associative level, not only perceptual.
has been suggested as a kind of self-expansion (or expansion of self) occurs when we experience intense emotions (such as passionate love) and then we create a mental representation shared self and partner. Moreover, since the same brain areas appear to mediate the love and embodied cognition Stephanie and her team support the idea that passionate love could mediate embodied cognition.
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Ortigue, S., Patel, N., Bianchi-Demicheli, F., & Grafton, S. (2010). Implicit priming of embodied cognition on human motor intention understanding in dyads in love Journal of Social and Personal Relationships DOI: 10.1177/0265407510378861
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