Does expressing love make us feel more love?
Love falls into one of two dimensions: feeling or experiencing love from someone else and extending or expressing love towards another person. Now, researchers are beginning to understand the nature of how giving love reinforces feeling love. Zita Oravecz, associate professor of human development and family studies and faculty co-hire in the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, discusses how expressing and feeling love can be practiced, how love experiences show up every day and how to cultivate more love in the world.