According to additional research from Harvard University, when we are "falling in love," our body has a physical reaction.

How does sex relate to lasting love? To answer that question, scientists have long studied a small Midwestern rodent called the prairie vole, one of the few mammals known to form long-term, monogamous ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — What can humans learn about love from other species? A fuzzy little prairie vole led researchers from the University of Texas at Austin to more answers on how to find lasting ...

Voles are small mammals that tend to have large heads, compact bodies, and short noses. Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur ...

It seems alcohol makes the heart grow fonder, if you're a female prairie vole. Researchers have found for the time that alcohol effects the brain systems involved in social bonding differently for ...

We utilize the socially monogamous prairie vole because they, like humans, are one of the rare mammalian species that form enduring pair bonds with their mating partners. We leverage molecular genetic ...

We see lots of behavior in the field that can inform what we do in the lab. For most of my career I’ve studied prairie voles, because they are very unusual in the animal world. The males and females ...

And according to Dr. Young’s fascinating research — which focuses on prairie voles — you can safely enjoy all the pleasure/dopamine you want without fear of bonding with some rando ...

With help from a colony of 100 prairie voles and a $1.5 million High-Risk, High-Reward grant announced Tuesday by the National Institutes of Health, Donaldson hopes to shed new light on the precise ...

Voles might hold the answer. There’s a tiny rodent, not much bigger than a satsuma, which has given us some amazing insight into why we fall in love, AND why we sometimes cheat. Prairie voles ...

Face it -- a great kiss makes the world dissolve, makes us dizzy with desire. "Women say they can tell if a relationship is going to work after the first kiss, after the first night of kissing ...