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" Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people. "
Helen Fisher
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" Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself. "
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" There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again. "
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" Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. "
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" For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. "
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" You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. "
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" Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. "
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" I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. "
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" Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there. "
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" Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. "
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" We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. "
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" The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. "
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" Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. "
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" Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing. "
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" Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. "
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" Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it. "
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