Reward, motivation, and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic love.

By Arthur Aron, Helen E. Fisher, Debra J. Mashek, Greg Strong, Haifang Li, L. Brown. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Reproductive Medicine, Social Psychology

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Widespread reward-system activation in obese women in response to pictures of high-calorie foods (2008, positive): “…unavailable in these libraries (VTA and NAc) were drawn within the WFU Pickatlas using three-dimensional spheres centered at a voxel location that was determined by averaging voxel location dimensions from relevant fMRI studies (Aron et al., 2005; Menon and Levitin, 2005; O'Doherty et al., 2002).”
A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, neutral): “For the negative example, only wi f e ( A , C ) is in E ⊥ and its vector is v 2 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .”
In the Eye of the Beholder: Individual Differences in Perceived Social Isolation Predict Regional Brain Activation to Social Stimuli (2009, background): “Evidence that social rewards also activate the ventral striatum has begun to accumulate in studies of romantic love (Aron et al., 2005), social cooperation (Rilling et al., 2002), social comparison (Fliessbach et al., 2007), and punitive altruism (De Quervain et al., 2004).”
The Neurobiology of Human Attachments. (2017, positive): “The caudate is involved in reinforcement learning, goal-directed action, and weighing the relative values of outcomes [135,145] and authors suggest that the shift from ventral to dorsal striatal functioning accompanies attachments as they settle into joint goals, mutual habitat, and reciprocity, and”
Neuropeptidergic regulation of affiliative behavior and social bonding in animals. (2006, result): “These authors observed brain activation in regions that were remarkably similar to those seen in other studies after consumption of cocaine, including dopamine reward circuits (Aron et al., 2005; Bartels and Zeki, 2000; Breiter et al., 1997; Fisher et al., 2005).”
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “…vs. close friend vs. familiar acquaintance vs. non-familiar acquaintance Long-term romantic love Passionate Love Scale; Eros subscale of the Love Attitudes Scale – – Aron et al. (2005) O, E 17 18–26 (M = 20.6) Activity in reward and motivation brain regions Viewed picture of partner vs.…”
A brief history of social scientists’ attempts to measure passionate love (2012, background): “For example, Aron et al. (2005) discovered that PLS scores correlated well with activation in a region of the caudate associated with reward (see Bartels & Zeki, 2000, 2004 and Hatfield & Rapson, 2009, for a review of recent neuroscience research correlating the PLS with participants’ fMRI…”
Measuring love in romantic relationships: A meta-analysis (2011, background): “Neuroimaging work has suggested that both romantic love (Aron et al., 2005; Bartels & Zeki, 2000) and maternal love (Bartels & Zeki, 2004) are associated with activation in the reward centers of the brain.”
Altered baseline brain activity in children with ADHD revealed by resting-state functional MRI. (2007, methodology): “Despite these limitations, fMRI has been used to study brain stem function [44].”
When similars do not attract: Tests of a prediction from the self-expansion model (2006, background): “…self-descriptions (Aron, Paris, & Aron, 1995), and looking at images of one’s beloved elicits activation in central reward systems of the brain (Aron et al., 2005); other studies show that experiencing self-expansion in an ongoing relationship causes increased relationship quality (Aron,…”
The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging (2010, background): “FMRI researchers have reported increased midbrain activation during anticipation of pleasant tastes (D’Ardenne et al , 2008; O’Doherty et al , 2002), anticipation of monetary gains (Knutson et al , 2005), and during exposure to visual stimuli that evoke romantic love (Aron et al , 2005).”
Does a Long-Term Relationship Kill Romantic Love? (2009, background): “The PLS has proven itself to be a valid, reliable, and unifactorial measure in the context of new relationships (Aron et al., 2005; Hatfield & Sprecher, 1986).”
Evolutionary neuromarketing: darwinizing the neuroimaging paradigm for consumer behavior (2008, result): “This is supported by other neuroimaging studies on the neural correlates of romantic love (Bartels and Zeki, 2000, 2004) and emotional systems associated with early stage romantic love (Aron et al., 2005).”
Prediction-error in the context of real social relationships modulates reward system activity (2012, background): “Other research notes that this intense affect bears semblance to addiction-related phenomenology (Aron et al., 2005; see also Ortigue and Bianchi-Demicheli, 2008) and may be intimately tied to reward system functions (Hyman, 2005).”