Romantic love, which has made no “scientific sense” to date, has been found to serve an evolutionary function… to, in case you haven’t guessed, stop us playing around. It seems to work… most of the time anyway.
“Psychologists have long had a problem explaining the functions of romantic love: a very strong emotion that sometimes seems to take over our lives and lead to what appear to be irrational feelings and actions,” says Joseph Forgas, a social psychologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. “What these studies suggest is that romantic love serves a very important function, tempering our natural desire to pay attention to, and to continuously seek out, the best available mate,” he says.
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