“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Atrocities Copy Share Image
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you.… — Helen Fisher Animal Copy Share Image
Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes.… — Helen Fisher Brain Copy Share Image
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of… — Helen Fisher Brain Copy Share Image
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Agriculture Copy Share Image
When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner… — Helen Fisher Food Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness… — Helen Fisher Care Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's… — Helen Fisher Attitude Copy Share Image
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going… — Helen Fisher Brain Copy Share Image
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. — Helen Fisher Brain Copy Share Image
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. — Helen Fisher Attachment Copy Share Image
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly. — Helen Fisher Addiction Copy Share Image
You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have… — Helen Fisher Career Copy Share Image
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real… — Helen Fisher Differences Copy Share Image
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning… — Helen Fisher Behavior Copy Share Image
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' — Helen Fisher Attraction Copy Share Image
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our… — Helen Fisher Animal Copy Share Image
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but… — Helen Fisher Anger Copy Share Image
Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at… — Helen Fisher College Copy Share Image
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to… — Helen Fisher Body Copy Share Image
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving… — Helen Fisher Energy Copy Share Image
You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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