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Helen Fisher Browse the Anatomy of Love that…
Helen Fisher
Browse the Anatomy of Love that https://theanatomyoflove.com/who-we-are/ does an excellent job summarizing the research in part done by “Helen Fisher, PhD, is a Biological Anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute. She studies the evolution, brain systems (fMRI) and cross-cultural patterns of romantic love, mate choice, marriage, adultery, divorce, gender differences in the brain, personality/temperament, business personalities and the biology of leadership styles. She has written five internationally best selling books: WHY HIM? WHY HER?; WHY WE LOVE; ANATOMY OF LOVE, THE FIRST SEX and THE SEX CONTRACT. She served as Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com and their subsidiary, Chemistry.com; and she designed the Chemistry.com questionnaire now taken by 13 million singles in 40 countries.”
Watch both of Dr. Fisher’s Ted Talks:
1. Her early one titled -https://theanatomyoflove.com/blog Why do we fall in love?
2. And her newer one titled – Technology hasn’t changed love. https://theanatomyoflove.com/blog/videos/technology-hasnt-changed-love-heres/
And if you have not yet looked at this, browse the ‘how we study love’; ‘results’ and the ‘what it all means’ tabs before compiling a short main discussion post answering the following.
1. What is your initial thoughts on the science behind online dating such as match.com?
2. How do you understand the following statement: “Intense romantic love is associated with the reward system that runs on dopamine. That romantic love is not an emotion or even a series of emotions, though we feel many emotions when in love. Romantic love is a drive, a motivation to win a preferred mating partner.”
3. Romantic love as mentioned here might mean more than just love. The textbook starts the chapter with a discussion into attraction, before talking about love. What is attraction in your definition? How is attraction different from love? Do you always need the one to have the other?
4. From her research Fisher makes this statement: “The main results of our study showed that romantic rejection is like withdrawing from cocaine! It also is like being in great physical pain. Importantly, unconscious brain systems are working at evaluating the situation and starting to build a “new you.” The website gives some advice in dealing with https://theanatomyoflove.com/conclusions/recovering-from-rejection/ heartbreak https://theanatomyoflove.com/conclusions/recovering-from-rejection/https://theanatomyoflove.com/conclusions/recovering-from-rejection/ from a brain science position of course, choose one of these to elaborate on – what do you make of it? what science does it seem to link to? why do you think they chose to add this to the list?
