Why we love : the nature and chemistry of romantic love / Helen Fisher.

By:

Fisher, Helen E [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : H. Holt, 2004Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 301 pages : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0805069135
9780805069136

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

152.41 22

LOC classification:

BF575.L8 F53 2004

Online resources:

Contents:

1. "What Wild Ecstasy": Being in Love -- 2. Animal Magnetism: Love among the Animals -- 3. Chemistry of Love: Scanning the Brain "in Love" -- 4. Web of Love: Lust, Romance, and Attachment -- 5. "That First Fine Careless Rapture": Who We Choose -- 6. Why We Love: The Evolution of Romantic Love -- 7. Lost Love: Rejection, Despair, and Rage -- 8. Taking Control of Passion: Making Romance Last -- 9. "The Madness of the Gods": The Triumph of Love.

Review: "In Why We Love, Helen Fisher offers new insight into this universal phenomenon based on her innovative scientific research. Working with a team of scientists to scan the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love, Fisher and her colleagues proved at last what psychologists had only suspected: when you fall in love, specific areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow. Using this data, she concludes that romantic passion is, in fact, hardwired into our brains by millions of years of evolution. It is not an emotion; it is a drive as powerful as hunger."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	152.41 FIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A266207B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.

"In Why We Love, Helen Fisher offers new insight into this universal phenomenon based on her innovative scientific research. Working with a team of scientists to scan the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love, Fisher and her colleagues proved at last what psychologists had only suspected: when you fall in love, specific areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow. Using this data, she concludes that romantic passion is, in fact, hardwired into our brains by millions of years of evolution. It is not an emotion; it is a drive as powerful as hunger."--BOOK JACKET.

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