Q & A
Mar 01, 2020
1 minute
BY LIZZIE WADE
Q: Can love be scientifically proven?
—Sydney H., age 15, Virginia
A: “We’ve done it!” says Helen Fisher, a. She put people who claimed to be madly in love—as well as those who had just been dumped—inside an fMRI scanner, a device that measures activity in the brain. Then she watched what happened when they looked at photographs of the objects of their affection.
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