It shows on your face, you live in love … – Review

The love, that deep human feeling and star of countless artistic creations, may also prove to be measured scientifically: Researchers at the University of Granada have analyzed for the first time the temperature changes of the beloved stimuli causes in the face.

The study, conducted at the Research Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, found differences in who saw photographs of the beloved person in front of those who were exposed to another type of stimulus he did not incite any emotional or romantic answer.

Elvira Salazar Lopez, currently a researcher at the Technical University of Munich, stressed Efe that, with this work, have managed to somehow quantify, with “psychophysiological” measures, how is the temperature change these stimuli cause in the face.

Research has revealed differences in facial temperature not relate solely to a change of location blood at the time and that there emotions or complex feelings that can be measured.

The study is part of other works on thermography also developed in Granada where they already called “Pinocchio effect” was confirmed as when someone lies which also changes the temperature of the tip of his nose.

These same researchers also measured for the first time scientifically it flamenco “duende” of the dancers to check temperature changes affecting these artists and it does not record the rest.

Salazar Lopez explained that the methodology used for the study about love has been similar to that used previously and has focused on areas of the face where recorded “Pretty changes” temperature, which is completed with a series of psychological tests.

The research has pointed to Efe that the detected temperature changes and the fact that a person can “turn red “to the beloved person are different aspects and that the latter reaction may be a sign of shyness.

Particularly in the case of women, would be part of a sexual response, courtship or automatic system nervous, he added.

“We we have focused on an already consolidated love, a more complex emotion, studied people who were seeing pictures of their partner,” he explained.

Although there are many other studies on love, which had already measured eg heart rate, this new study provides one more parameter for quantifying the effects and deepen the knowledge of one of the most complex feelings. Roberto Ruiz Oliva.