2004
Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
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One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.
Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher walks us through the biology of love. From the importance of one-night stands to the solidity of marriage, Fisher shreds the common wisdom of what love is and isn't in the 21st century.
Learn about the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type shapes who you are and who you love.
A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher
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Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.
First published in 1992, Helen Fisher’s “fascinating” (New York Times) Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic.
Why do you fall in love with one person rather than another? In this book, Helen Fisher unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment.
In Why We Love, anthropologist Helen Fisher offers a new map of the phenomenon of love―from its origins in the brain to the thrilling havoc it creates in our bodies and behavior.
Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...
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To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love-and people who had just been dumped.