Thursday, July 5, 2012

Can You Fake Love for Love?





Ever wonder why a lot of Hollywood actors get involved with their co-stars when their filming?


Brad and Angelina acted out their lustful love for one another in Mr. & Mrs. SmithKristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Twilight, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer in True BloodFreddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in I Know What You Did Last Summer.. the list goes on and on.. so does behaving, even if its acting lead to real emotions?

New research by a leading psychologist, Richard Wiseman, says 'behaving like you are in love can lead to actually falling in love'.


Wiseman says 'Actions are the quickest, easiest and most powerful way to instantly change how you think and feel.' - So is this why you become attached or foster a crush on the guy you made-out with at a party and then walked around with his hand around your shoulder all night?


Wiseman's study along with research done by Harvard academic Dr. Robert Epstein basically suggests that actions and behaviors can lead to emotions.

In Epstein's research he looks at arranged marriages and says the connections in arranged marriages are twice as strong and grow over time..some relationship experts say this could be because the matches are carefully planned with interests, life goals and family lifestyles all taken into consideration. Whereas couples who marry for love are distracted by lust and passion and therefore don't take those important details into consideration. 

Epstein said, " The idea is we must not leave our love lives to chance. We plan our education, our careers and our finances but we’re still uncomfortable with the idea that we should plan our love lives."

An interesting thought about your love life, maybe some people should give match.com and matchmakers a shot at planning a possible love life for themselves after all.

Or maybe if you gave the nice guy who isn't that attractive a shot and acted like you like him you will eventually fall for him? 

Who knows.. but it is something to consider, it worked in She's All That didn't it?




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