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Why do we fall out love? Psychologist Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D. dissects three reasons why — and the solutions we can implement in our own lives — in a recent blog for Psychology Today.

📋 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/liking-the-child-you-love/202210/3-big-reasons-why-people-fall-out-love

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"Ever notice that when you’re hungry, you seem to see every billboard for fast food and remember its exact exit from the freeway? This temporary shift in thinking, referred to as motivated cognition, is not limited to the search for food. Several studies reveal how people’s thoughts, memory, and behavior change automatically to help them form social relationships—which psychologists refer to as the social monitoring system."

Dr. Brian Collisson writes, for Psychology Today, the unconscious ways our bodies prepare us for building relationships:

🔗 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dating-toxic-or-tender/202208/unconscious-ways-people-form-relationships