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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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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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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.
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.
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I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
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We're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
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When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.
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At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
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High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
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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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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
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I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
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Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
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