Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher
Helen E. Fisher is an American anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author. She is a biological anthropologist, is a Senior Research Fellow, at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and a Member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
I think the happiness we find, we make.
Romantic love is an addiction.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
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.
Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive.
Romantic love is deeply embedded in the architecture and chemistry of the human brain, ... Why We Love.
You can have it all, but it isn't easy.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.
After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
When somebody leaves Match.com or Chemistry.com, they ask you why you left. One box you can check is, 'I found somebody.' Between 15 and 20 percent of people check that box.