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Helen Fisher

American anthropologist

Died when: 79 years 78 days (950 months)
Star Sign: Gemini

 

Helen Fisher

Helen Elizabeth Fisher (born May 31, 1945) was an American anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author.She is a biological anthropologist, is a senior research fellow, at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and a member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Prior to Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

She is a leading expert on the biology of love and attraction.Fisher said that when she began researching for her dissertation, she considered the one thing all humans have in common – their reproductive strategies.

She is now the most referenced scholar in the love research community.In 2005, she was hired by match.com to help build chemistry.com, which used her research and experience to create both hormone-based and personality-based matching systems.

She was one of the main speakers at the 2006 and 2008 TED conference.On January 30, 2009, she was featured in an ABC News 20/20 special, Why Him?

Why Her?The Science of Seduction, where she discussed her most recent research on brain chemistry and romantic love.She appears in the 2014 documentary film about heart-break and loneliness, entitled Sleepless in New York and the 2017 PBS Nova special on computerized dating, 'How to Find Love Online'.

Fisher advises that in order to sustain long-term deep attachment and romantic love, a couple should leverage neurochemistry by regularly having sex and physical contact (which drives up the oxytocin system), engaging in novel activities (which drives up the dopamine system), and saying nice things to the partner (which reduces cortisol and cholesterol).


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