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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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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Manhattan borough
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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
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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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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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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
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Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
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