Helen Fisher (anthropologist)

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

Helen Fisher

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

Helen Fisher

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you’re having a chemical experience.

Helen Fisher

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Helen Fisher

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

Helen Fisher

There’s more than one person on the planet. When you’re madly in love, that’s not what you think.

Helen Fisher

We’re apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

Helen Fisher

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

Helen Fisher

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

Helen Fisher