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" There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. "
Helen Fisher
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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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" Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it. "
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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. "
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" At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. "
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" We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. "
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" It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer. "
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" Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. "
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" Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. "
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" Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. "
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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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" Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. "
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" From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator. "
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