Helen Fisher may refer to:
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.
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.
Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.
love is like Someone is camping in your head
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
It's in our genes, we were built to wander.
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.
Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.
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.