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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
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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.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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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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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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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
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We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.
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Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
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Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
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Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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Men and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.
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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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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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The human brain is built to compare it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
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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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