Robbie Wagoner

Mrs. Thomas
UWRT 1103-048
15 March 2016

WID: I feel that the strong aspects of my inquiry proposal are that I truly share my
opinion on the subject at hand. I collaborate my ideas and discuss some of my current
findings to explain why this topic is actually researchable. I also believe that I have done
a decent job explaining why this topic of love and its effect on the brain is important to
me. However, I do believe that I could increase the length and the content of this
assignment with the help of my peers and instructor. I feel that their feedback will allow
me to improve this paper to its maximum potential. As far as questions for my readers, I
only seem to have one, and that is: What is good/bad about this assignment?
Reflection 1
After taking the appropriate time to read over my initial draft for this inquiry proposal
assignment, I must admit that I am pleased with its outcome. I believe that I have done
a satisfactory job explaining what has led me to choose and research this specific
question of how the brain reacts throughout the different stages of love. I also believe
that I did a fine job including a brief history of the question and the context that the
question lied within. I feel that i explained the significance of the question and how it
was important to me. Also, I think that I did a superior job explaining the evidence that I
gathered to establish that this question is indeed researchable. Basically, I feel as if I
answered all of the questions that were required for this assignment while also
providing my feedback about the assignment. However, there is still room for

improvement in regards to this assignment. I feel that with the help of my instructor and
peers I can make this paper even better, and possibly a little bit longer. I would like to
see the length of this paper increase, while also making it easier to follow along.
How the Brain Reacts to Love
As boring as it may seem, topics of the brain have always intrigued my interests
due to the complexity of the organ. The amount of information that we have yet to
discover about the brain truly fathoms me. A specific topic that has sparked my curiosity
is how the brain reacts to love. The term love is very broad and can be explained in an
infinite amount of ways depending on the individual defining. There are different types of
love as well. There is romantic love, familial love, love in friendship and much more. I
came to a decision of focusing my research towards romantic love. However, the true
question that has come to mind is how the brain reacts differently throughout the stages
of love. In other words, how does the brain behave when initially falling in love, being in
love with a person for a short term and being in love for a long term? Before conducting
research I developed an opinion and made prior assumptions to my question based on
my own experiences with love. Having been with my girlfriend for quite some time, I
believe that the brain must react differently towards the different stages of love.
Obviously in relationships, depending on the length, couples act differently around each
other. A couple who has been together for years compared to a couple who has only
been together for a couple of weeks will not act the same around each other. Couples
will develop a deeper comfort level and a stronger love for each other as time
progresses within a relationship.

Other than personal experiences with love, I came into this assignment knowing
little about the subject. I knew what it felt like to be in love, as well as how it feels to be
loved. However, I had little to no idea as to why these feelings occur. I decided to take it
upon myself to further research love and its effect on the brain. This is a subject that I
had been feeling the need to investigate since the end of my high school career,
however I never received the opportunity to do so until now. My initial topic consisted of
the effect of love on the brain as it begins to fall in love, however, I felt that my research
should contain more depth than just the initial act of falling in love. I believed that it was
important to research the reasons behind the different stages of love, while also
comparing and contrasting each stage to one another. I felt that this would better my
knowledge and understanding of the human brain and its complex functions.
Due to past experience with research in other courses, I have realized the proper
way to fully comprehend and digest an article to get all of the information provided. As I
began my investigation process I found a variety of articles that explained the reactions
the brain experiences during love. However, there was only a small selection of articles
that explained the way the brain reacted to the different stages of love. After considering
these articles I began to develop a further, scientific perspective on the brain when
involved with love. Each article explained how love is such a complex emotion to fully
comprehend and cannot be explained to complete clarification. However, each
consisted of a variety of experiments that helped provide research to the question and
in assisting a more profound opinion to develop.
Based on my current findings, I developed a more extensive understanding of the
brain and love. More specifically I discovered the ways the brain reacts to love when

falling in love, being in a short term relationship and being in a long term relationship.
While the information that I did read upon was research and experimentally oriented,
the topic of love is still considered extremely complex, and cannot be fully explained or
comprehended even with the impressive science we have today. It is unfortunately one
of the topics that require more than just a scientific approach and more an emotional
and psychological approach, which is mainly determined from interpretation.