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There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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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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There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this mortal coil.
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You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.
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love is like Someone is camping in your head
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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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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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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
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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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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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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
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Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
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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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A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
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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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Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
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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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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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My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
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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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We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.
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