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
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 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.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.
Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.
There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.
Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.
People kill for love. They die for love.
The brain system for romantic love is associated with intense energy, focused energy, obsessive things - a host of characteristics that you can feel not just toward a mating sweetheart, ... there's every reason to think that girls can fall in love with other girls without feeling sexual towards them, without the intention to marry them.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.
Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.