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Out of "Understanding Humans for Vulcans 101":
Humans have things that are called emotions. The word love refers to one of them. From the positive emotions that humans can feel it's a quite strong one.
Feeling positive emotions has been shown to provide a bunch of health effects.
Human who are deprived of positive emotions also tend to do a lot of very irrational stuff to feel well. Especially when they are intelligent they are usually good at rationalizing their behavior. Once basic emotional needs are fulfilled it's usually easier for humans to make decisions that are actually rational in other area's.
That book is sorely needed in real life.
Of the many books in this section of a publisher's catalogue, there are several along these lines.
Thank you very much. The list includes a homeopathy book, though, which seriously diminishes the credibility of all the others.
I noticed that one, but I don't think it's fair to judge all 600 books in the catalogue by association with the worst item in it, else who should 'scape whipping? Although by all means judge the publisher's judgement in publishing it.