Quotes by Helen Fisher - Page 4

There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Falling In Love
Hate
Mechanism
Real
Hating
Literally
Originally
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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.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Cake
Chocolate
Chocolate Cake
Joy
People
Spoiled
Love Me Joy
Love Joy Me
Hardly
Ingredient
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You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Complementary
Falling In Love
Growing Up
Thinking
Traits
Unconscious
Somewhat
Fits
Gravitate
Grow Up
List
Map
Systems
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The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Depression
Jobs
Great
War
Boring
Five
Great Depression
Nine
Numbers
Repetitive
Saws
Unmarried
World War Ii
War Women World
More
Once
Women Great World
Again
American
Between
Working
Number
Saw
Mostly
Subordinate
World War
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It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Men
Adaptive
Calories
Endurance
Famine
Fertile
Stores
Stressful
Wife
Fat
Ancestral
Burn
Chubby
Remained
Thus
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Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Baby
Children
Husband
Millions
Mother
Village
Babies
Exactly
Millions Of Years
Mothers
Partner
Raise
Rear
Supposed
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There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Attachment
Romantic Love
Sex
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Honesty
Lying
Sex
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There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Brain
Falling In Love
Important
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You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Fancy
Fancy Cars
Knowing
Thinking
Dealing
Engine
Leg
Rush
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Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Best Friend
Girl
Jealousy
Best
Combination
Core
Excitement
Eye
Fire
Humiliation
Long
Mind
Names
Rage
Suspicion
Sweetheart
Very
Another
Name
Calls
Friend
Too
Contemplate
Eyes
His
Linger
Overtake
Rival
Sickening
Talks
Threaten
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Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Women
Clothes
Coats
Department
Department Stores
Dinner
Gadgets
Ingenious
Peas
Sheep
Skirts
Today
Weaving
Wool
Most
Go
Women Are
Blankets
Buy
Catalogs
Through
Chicken
Cloth
Gather
Grocery
Grocery Store
Hunt
Instead
Raise
Serve
Store
Surrounded
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That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Falling In Love
Romantic Love
Sex
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