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Montreal Gazette (blog) - McGill's John Lydon — What's love got to do with it?

Published: 28 January 2011

What is it about that love that causes such monumental highs and calamitous lows? What makes us care so much? Or not enough. On Friday, February 4 at 5 p.m. join John Lydon, a psychology professor at McGill University, at the Redpath Museum, as he attempts to unravel the science of close human relationships with  "The Psych of Love: Is Love a big equilateral triangle?"

The Lydon Lab at McGill studies interpersonal relationships from a "motivational cognition approach" – basically, how bonds of attachment regulate stress and well-being, and how social environments influence mother love, bonding and a child's development.

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