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.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
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
Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
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 is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
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.
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."