Bode Adam, Kuula Liisa
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.
Biology (Basel). 2021 Sep 16;10(9):923. doi: 10.3390/biology10090923.
This article provides a narrative review of what is known about romantic love and sleep variations and provides possible explanations for the association. Romantic love and sleep are described using a comprehensive, unifying framework advocated by Tinbergen. We summarise the findings of studies investigating the relationship between romantic love and sleep. Sleep variations are associated with romantic love in adolescents and young adults. We then detail some proximate mechanisms that may contribute to sleep variations in people experiencing romantic love before considering potential evolutionary functions of sleep variations in people experiencing romantic love. The relationship between symptoms of psychopathology and sleep variations in people experiencing romantic love is described. With the current state of knowledge, it is not possible to determine whether sleep variations associated with romantic love are adaptations or by-products of romantic love. We conclude by proposing areas for future research.
本文对浪漫爱情与睡眠变化的相关已知内容进行了叙述性综述，并为二者之间的关联提供了可能的解释。浪漫爱情和睡眠是依据廷伯根所倡导的一个全面统一的框架来描述的。我们总结了探究浪漫爱情与睡眠关系的研究结果。睡眠变化与青少年和年轻人的浪漫爱情相关。接着，在考虑浪漫爱情中睡眠变化的潜在进化功能之前，我们详细阐述了一些可能导致处于浪漫爱情中的人睡眠变化的近因机制。文中描述了心理病理学症状与处于浪漫爱情中的人睡眠变化之间的关系。鉴于目前的知识水平，尚无法确定与浪漫爱情相关的睡眠变化是浪漫爱情的适应性表现还是副产品。我们通过提出未来研究领域来结束本文。
