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My Name Is Joe

1998

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

105 min

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Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages

One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.

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Helen Fisher: In the Digital World, We’re All Cavemen When It Comes to Love

Despite the swirling changes brought on by ubiquitous tech, we remain the same Homo sapiens who walked heart-to-heart and hand-in-hand through the African grasslands more than 2 million years ago. We love to fall in love.

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Helen Fisher: What we want

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.

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The Nature of Love

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.

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Big Think Interview with Helen Fisher

A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher

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Why we love, why we cheat - Helen Fisher

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.

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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

First published in 1992, Helen Fisher’s “fascinating” (New York Times) Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic.

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Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love

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.

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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

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.

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The Brain in Love - Helen Fisher

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.

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