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CONTACT:events@ri.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:The Royal Institution of Great Britain & French Embassy
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DESCRIPTION:With the flowers blooming and birds singing\, our scientific fa
 ncy is turning to love. In collaboration with the French Embassy\, we’ll 
 be investigating just what that slushy\, fizzy feeling means scientifically
 . Why do we fall for the people we do? Is it all about pretty faces or pers
 onalities – or do we just go for the ones who remind us of our parents? D
 ave Perrett is a professor of psychology in St Andrews who studies attracti
 veness and mate choice\, and he’ll be on hand to give us the details on w
 here our romantic choices spring from. Lucy Vincent\, a neurobiologist at t
 he French Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique\, knows all about t
 he synaptic sparks that go off when we fall in love. What’s happening in 
 the brain when we love someone – and what about when we break up? Can sci
 ence offer us any tips on winning someone over and staying together? And do
 es all this scientific talk about love spoil the magic? Come see our speake
 rs (across a crowded room) and find out for yourself!
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\n_This evening co
 mes in two parts:_ after the talk\, the Ciné Lumière will be showing a fi
 lm specially chosen to tie in with our topic. Since the French are\, after 
 all\, acknowledged world experts on romance\, we’re sure they’ll come u
 p with something perfect. Check www.rigb.org for more details soon.
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 avid Perrett* was born in the Shropshire countryside in 1954\, and educated
  in Psychology at the University of St Andrews (BSc 1976) and University of
  Oxford (D.Phil.\, 1981). He has worked in research ever since at St Andrew
 s (appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellow 1983\, Lecturer 
 1990\, Professor 1998). He works on how we process faces from a variety of 
 perspectives (inc. developmental\, comparative\, perceptual\, social and ev
 olutionary psychology\, and neuroscience). In much of his work he uses comp
 uter graphics to make subtle alterations to the appearance of face images a
 nd then find out how the alterations impact on perception and attraction to
  the faces.
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\n*Lucy Vincent* holds a doctorate in neuroscience. She broa
 dcasts on scientific subjects for Radio France and is the author of several
  books\, including Comment devient-on amoureux?  (How do we fall in love?).
 
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SUMMARY:Love factually
DTSTART:20080312T183000
CREATED:20080111T114325
DTSTAMP:20080822T001321
LOCATION:Ciné Lumière Institut Français Cultural Centre 
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