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Annotated BibliographyOravecz, Z., Muth, C., & Vandekerckhove, J. (2016). Do people agree on what makes us feel loved? A cognitive psychometric approach to heartfelt love consensus. PLOS ONE, 11(4). This article addresses actions that make people feel loved. In a survey conducted on participants of different ages, male and female, they were given scenarios and asked if they would feel loved by the scenarios. Those who belonged to families with multiple family members demonstrated that they believed they had a strong understanding of the causes of love. Overall, kindness-focused scenarios led people to choose to feel loved. Males had a harder time determining whether or not the scenarios would lead to felt love than females, but responses varied based on personality traits. Those who were in a relationship tended to consider loving scenarios when they were unsure of how to respond, compared to those who were not in a relationship. I chose to include this article because I was aware that everyone feels love in different ways and that was the case. It describes the relationship between the heart and the brain and why some feelings and hormones may come from the heart while others come from the brain. The article confirms the scientific basis of love through hormones and brain interaction. Different types of love are seen in different parts of the brain. Unconditional familial love is found in a different section than passionate love which lights up in the same area as rewards in the brain. Scientists believe that by understanding the causes that lead humans to fall in love or become heartbroken, more accurate therapies can be developed to overcome this problem. I was interested in reading this article because I had heard about the link between the brain and falling in love. The article opened my eyes to what controls the heart when falling in love and what controls the brain, and it was very