Love Can Make You Smarter - Facts So Romantic

Love is supposed to make you stupid. We're used to seeing the lover as a mooning fool, blind to his lover's faults and the goings-on of the outside world, or even as a person who has lost all sense of rationality or propriety, driven to a kind of madness. There's science to back this up: Love has been shown to decrease brain activity in areas associated with memory, long-term planning, learning, and abstract thought, and psychologists have found a correlation between love and irrational and obsessive behaviors. However, as with most human emotions, there are two sides to this love story. Being in love can also boost our cognition.