Why we love : the nature and chemistry of romantic love /
Helen Fisher.
- First edition.
- xiii, 301 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
"What Wild Ecstasy": Being in Love -- Animal Magnetism: Love among the Animals -- Chemistry of Love: Scanning the Brain "in Love" -- Web of Love: Lust, Romance, and Attachment -- "That First Fine Careless Rapture": Who We Choose -- Why We Love: The Evolution of Romantic Love -- Lost Love: Rejection, Despair, and Rage -- Taking Control of Passion: Making Romance Last -- "The Madness of the Gods": The Triumph of Love. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"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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Love. Love--Physiological aspects Human evolution Sex. Sex differences