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
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing.
The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.
Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.
A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do, because men will pick up things that they didn't mean.
Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief.
When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.
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.
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.
It's very hard to gauge. Those are signs of intention. But they are not signs that this person is actually good in bed and is compatible with you.