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The paper takes three books (Romeo and Juliet, Lilly of the Valley, and Martin Eden) and has readers score four points in them for feeling. Not just any reader
by isaacfrond 4y ago
The paper takes three books (Romeo and Juliet, Lilly of the Valley, and Martin Eden) and has readers score four points in them for feeling.
Not just any readers mind you! But readers that are "used to reading texts instead of watching movies and YouTube"
The resulting values are then fitted to some curve or other. Unsurprisingly, fitting four points works just fine.
This apparently supports their key hypothesis "that love is a second-order phase transition occurring in the human brain under the influence of hormones, such as dopamine and serotonin". That the brain or hormones have something to do with love, I'm ready to believe, how it ties in with non-youtubing readers of Romeo and Julliet, not so much.