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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.
Helen Fisher
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
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Helen E Fisher
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There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
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Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
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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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The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
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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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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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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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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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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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