Wired for Love

By Stephanie Cacioppo,

Book cover of Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

Book description

From the world’s foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

At thirty-seven, Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo was content to be single. She was fulfilled…

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Neuroscientist Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo was single at 37 and content with focusing on the neuroscience of romantic love.

However, everything changed when she met a neuroscientist whose work was on the neuroscience of loneliness, John Cacioppo. After falling in love, they married and shared an office while working at the University of Chicago. Seven years after their wedding, John died of cancer.

Wired for Love not only breaks down Cacioppo’s research about love but is about her own personal experience that she shared with her late husband. Cacioppo’s book shows us how we process love that is lost and how…

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