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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
Sitcom
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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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Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
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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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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
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Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
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When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.
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Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.
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There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.
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Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
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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 and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
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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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The human brain is built to compare it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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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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A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
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