Comments on: Love Is the Drug: Staring at a Beloved’s Face Lessens Pain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 17:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tatyana http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-361828 Tatyana Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:17:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-361828 What about the blind persons? Will touching do the same as staring? What about the blind persons? Will touching do the same as staring?

]]> By: Mikky http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-360730 Mikky Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:20:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-360730 “Be a volunteer, you will forget the pain when you are busy." “Be a volunteer, you will forget the pain when you are busy.”

]]> By: John http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-356291 John Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:39:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-356291 This suggests that hospital visitations rights should be determined by one's experienced loving bond with someone, rather than only by family relations and legal bonds if we consider these visits as, not just a courtesy but, a quantifiable aid to care. This suggests that hospital visitations rights should be determined by one’s experienced loving bond with someone, rather than only by family relations and legal bonds if we consider these visits as, not just a courtesy but, a quantifiable aid to care.

]]> By: Brody http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-352588 Brody Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:41:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-352588 How can a study done with a sample size of "15 undergrads" have any statistical significance at all? Seriously, how does a "study" involving on 7 Stanford men and 8 Stanford women deserve any media attention? Is it just because they used an MRI device? The researcher says, "This doesn't require you to be an undergraduate at a university to fall head-over-heels in love. Even older people can do that." What is he basing that assertion on? How can a study done with a sample size of “15 undergrads” have any statistical significance at all? Seriously, how does a “study” involving on 7 Stanford men and 8 Stanford women deserve any media attention? Is it just because they used an MRI device?

The researcher says, “This doesn’t require you to be an undergraduate at a university to fall head-over-heels in love. Even older people can do that.”

What is he basing that assertion on?

]]> By: Jason http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-352344 Jason Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:31:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-352344 I wonder how it relates to parents as well. When you're a kid and when you were in pain it was almost always straight to mom and of course she always made you feel better. Would staring at your mother/father/grandparents reduce pain as well? I wonder how it relates to parents as well. When you’re a kid and when you were in pain it was almost always straight to mom and of course she always made you feel better.

Would staring at your mother/father/grandparents reduce pain as well?

]]> By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-350621 Eliza Strickland Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:31:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-350621 @Rhaco: Ha, I was actually going for a reference to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU&ob=av2n" rel="nofollow">Roxy Music song</a>. I'd somehow never been consciously aware of the Ke$ha song until this moment. Science: it teaches you things! @Rhaco: Ha, I was actually going for a reference to the Roxy Music song. I’d somehow never been consciously aware of the Ke$ha song until this moment. Science: it teaches you things!

]]> By: Rhacodactylus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-350536 Rhacodactylus Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:35:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-350536 I'm more than a little worried that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLAJwcNFnVA" rel="nofollow">Ke$ha lyrics</a> are making it into the titles of science blogs . . . it's not the end of civilization, but you can see it from here =) Just joking, I wonder if there were any undergrads who tried to get their significant others to be involved in this study and got shut down "yeah, I just said <i>I love you</i> because I hate awkward pauses, wildly and wrecklessly doesn't really describe it" <a href="http://untitledvanityproject.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">~Rhaco</a> I’m more than a little worried that Ke$ha lyrics are making it into the titles of science blogs . . . it’s not the end of civilization, but you can see it from here =)

Just joking, I wonder if there were any undergrads who tried to get their significant others to be involved in this study and got shut down “yeah, I just said I love you because I hate awkward pauses, wildly and wrecklessly doesn’t really describe it”

~Rhaco

]]> By: Nemesis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-350477 Nemesis Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:54:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-350477 I just smoke weed so I don't have to love anyone. I just smoke weed so I don’t have to love anyone.

]]> By: bigjohn756 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/14/love-is-the-drug-staring-at-a-beloveds-face-lessens-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-350451 bigjohn756 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:33:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21382#comment-350451 I guess I will have to carry a mirror with me all of the time now. I guess I will have to carry a mirror with me all of the time now.

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