Barbara Fredrickson Love

To many people the word “Love” does not seems to be something physical that a person can touch or see, but more like an abstract noun. Love is not something that they can touch or to other it's how they are affected mentally. The author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, Barbara Fredrickson gives us another way to view the word love and how it affects us as human beings. Instead of looking at love as a noun but start to look at it as a verb, due to love constantly changing. Fredrickson understanding of love takes a different approach than other by looking at the biochemical aspect of our body band and how it is “designed to love”. Her belief is to look at it from the body’s definition of

This system consists of 3 main characters; the brain, oxytocin, and the vagus nerve. Fredrickson centers her system around these three characters but we also know that other factors can influence love as well. By looking at her choices you can tell where her understanding of human body is “designed to love” comes from. The main functions of these 3 characters are; the brain controls our thought process whether subconsciously or not, Oxytocin is a powerful hormone that regulates our social interaction as well as seual reproduction, and the vagus nerve helps regulate your heart rate (with oxytocin).

Fredrickson challenges our common notion of what love is by stating that there is a biochemical system that regulates and controls love. Everyday and throughout our lives we have been personally affected by our culture and society on the notions of what love is. As we continued to grow we developed our own thoughts are on what love is. The thing that we have most in common is that we see love as an experience we see towards someone or something. Love usually refers to the care that we show towards someone or some