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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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Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.
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When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
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Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.
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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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Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
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Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
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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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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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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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[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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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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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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You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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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.
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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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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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You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
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Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.
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Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
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