In the media, love is typically shown as romantic and sentimental. Such as in Disney movies, many princesses end with a scene where they promise their endless love to their prince. However, in the field of psychology, there were some debates on whether love is such a romantic emotion.

The psychologist Fisher investigated the mechanism of love. In this study, researchers predicted that dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter that regulates emotional responses, plays a factor. Upon conducting brain scans of lovers through fMRI, researchers found activity in A10 cells, which are cells that make dopamine and transfer it to different parts of the brain such as the amygdala, and hippocampus. Dopamine is also responsible for controlling motivation through reward and pleasure centers. Moreover, they also found brain activity in the reptilian core of the brain, which is the part of the brain associated with wanting and motivation as well. Hence, Fisher states that love is highly associated with the reward system and that love is more related to the motivation system rather than the typical romantic love. The reptilian core part of the brain is one of the first parts of the brain since human evolution. Thus, some also interpret that love is more of an instinct based on a motivation system, which deviates from the typical romantic love present in the media. 

Regardless, love is a subjective and complex emotion that cannot be defined by a single system. Love also has many different forms and cannot be quantified at the same time. Thus, the study of love is limitless with various potential possibilities. 

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