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
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,
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
It's in our genes, we were built to wander.
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.
I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
I was married and divorced at 23.
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
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.