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Helen Fisher


American
1947
Scientist
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Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.


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Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.


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Tags: Up Which Real
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.


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Tags: Work Eat Sleep
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Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.


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Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.


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Tags: Women Out World
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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Tags: Love First Hate
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There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.


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Tags: You Think More
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
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Tags: Who Up Lot
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
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Tags: You More Very
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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Tags: Romantic Up Love
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
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Tags: You People Know
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
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The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
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Tags: You Know Way
I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.
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Tags: You People Always
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
Helen Fisher
Tags: Men Who Get
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.
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You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
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Tags: Time Good Home
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
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Tags: Women Men You
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
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Tags: You Up Than
Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.
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Tags: Who Will Love
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
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Tags: Good Women Men
Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.
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Tags: Women Men You
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.
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Tags: You Like Very
Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
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Tags: Women Men Think
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
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Tags: Romantic You Love
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
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Tags: Change You Going
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
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As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
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Tags: About Our Years
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
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Tags: Women More Than
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.
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Tags: You Know Your
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.
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Tags: People Them Come
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.
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A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.
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Tags: Time Chance You
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
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Tags: Just More Really