Helen Fisher Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.
When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
I don't think we're an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being.
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
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.
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
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.
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
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.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
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.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.