Love Is Chemistry
This hormone is often called the “love hormone.”
What is oxytocin?
This Nobel Prize–winning couple discovered radioactivity.
Who are Marie and Pierre Curie?
This term describes emotional stress affecting physical health.
What is psychosomatic?
This sense plays a major role in attraction through pheromones.
What is smell?
Chocolate contains this compound that can elevate mood.
What is serotonin?
This neurotransmitter spikes when you have a crush and affects reward pathways.
What is dopamine?
This astronomer was married to fellow scientist Mileva Marić.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Broken heart syndrome” is medically known as this.
What is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy?
Studies show people are often attracted to partners with different versions of this immune system gene group.
What is MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex)?
Dark chocolate comes from the seeds of this plant.
What is cacao?
The chemical symbol for oxygen, an element essential for life and love.
What is O?
This couple collaborated on DNA research but was overshadowed for years.
Who are Rosalind Franklin and her male colleagues? (Accept: Franklin & Watson/Crick context)
This hormone increases during heartbreak and stress.
What is cortisol?
This hormone increases during flirting and romantic bonding.
What is testosterone?
This type of mixture makes up most candy solutions
What is a homogeneous mixture?
This part of the brain becomes less active when people are deeply in love, reducing critical judgment.
This part of the brain becomes less active when people are deeply in love, reducing critical judgment.
This primatologist was supported by her husband Hugo van Lawick.
Who is Jane Goodall?
Lack of sleep after a breakup affects this brain function.
What is memory or concentration?
The “butterflies in your stomach” feeling is caused by reduced blood flow to this organ.
What is the stomach?
The process of melting chocolate without burning it.
What is tempering?
The chemical formula for table sugar, which gives Valentine’s candy its sweetness.
What is C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁?
This computing pioneer worked alongside his wife, who also contributed to early programming.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This scientific term means correlation does NOT equal this.
What is causation?
This scientific field studies human attraction and mating behavior.
What is evolutionary psychology?
This molecule gives chocolate its bitter taste.
What is theobromine?