In the brain, early-stage intense passionate love seems to be universal

Close relationship researchers have previously found that Easterners (those from collectivistic cultures such as China) seem to regard love differently from Westerners (those from individualist cultures such as the United States). However, since these studies were conducted with self-report questionnaires, are these cultural differences due to actual differences in the experience of love? Or just in cultural differences of how people talk about their experiences (e.g. cultural differences in modesty, reserve etc.)? A new study published in Human Brain Mapping (online publication date: 16 April 2010) set out to clarify this issue using a non self-report method: neuroimagining via functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)...

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