Helen Fisher is an American biological anthropologist. She has done extensive research on romantic relationships and on how our brain’s chemistry effects love and sex. She also created the personality-based system for Match.com.
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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.
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.
One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.
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.
Jealousy is not always rational and it doesn’t discriminate, so what causes this exceptionally strong emotion?
Looking back to prehistoric times, Helen Fisher shows how the special structure of the female brain enables women to do "web thinking" or "synthesis thinking," as compared to men's more linear or "step" thinking.
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.
Jealousy . . .can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.
Love is the best thing in life - until it's over. Heartbreak affects us all. Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei teams with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher to examine the power and resilience of love despite it all.
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