Helen Fisher Quotes - Page 3

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• Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

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  Happiness, Romantic Love, Brain

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• Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.

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  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

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  Men, Trying, Looks

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• Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

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  Attitude, Romance, Different

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• Romantic love is an addiction.

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  Love, Happiness, Addiction

  "The science of love and happiness". Interview with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. June 30, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Humanity, Brain, Bars

  "Love in the time of dot-coms". Interview with Gus G. Sentementes, articles.baltimoresun.com. February 11, 2011.

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• [Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

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  Thinking, Data, Brain

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• When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

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  Data, Brain, Looks

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• Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Choices

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.23, Macmillan

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• For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

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  Careers, Generations, Path

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• The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.

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  Girl, Boys, Tools

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• Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.

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  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "Love, sex and the changing landscape of infidelity" by Tara Parker-Pope, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Goes On, Forget, Things You Love

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• 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.

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  Tattoo, Powerful, Men

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• I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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• There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Feelings, Biology

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• If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

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  Jobs, Dna, Skills

  "The Mysteries of Love" by Sara Reistad-Long, www.realsimple.com.

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• Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

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  Mother, Philosophy, Medicine

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• There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

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  Disappointment, Romance, Anxiety

  "Do I Love My Wife? An Investigative Report" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. May 18, 2009.

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• A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

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  People, Feels, Has Beens

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• I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

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  Meaningful, Divorce, Thinking

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• It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

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  Infidelity, Genes, Wander

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• Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

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  Love, Men, Talking

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• People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

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  Cake, People, Joy

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