People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives… — Helen Fisher 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
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way… — 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 Copy Share Image
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too. — Helen Fisher 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
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 Copy Share Image
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — 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 Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — 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 who will… — 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. It's very… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. — 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
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — 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 as collectors. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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