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FRONT PAGE of the Daily Telegraph two days ago was a GOOD NEWS STORY! Whod have thought!? Topic? -- the secret to happy marriages. Answer? -- watching romantic films together. Whilst debate about this recently published study has focused on its methodology (for example, is 174 couples enough to create generalisable results), what I wanted to say that the findings make fine theoretical sense. Cuddling up on the couch produces the hormone oxytocin; the two of you engage in shared focus of attention; and the mirror neurons in the brain are noting all the behaviour its tracking in the actors. Put that way, it doesnt seem like rocket science, does it? It seems both obvious and, at the same time, too simple. (Which lies at the heart of the griping about this study.) Thats what people say all the time about this connectedness science stuff — obvious and too simple.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:31:56 +0000

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