Lust, Romance, Attachment: Why Him? Why Her? - Helen Fisher, Ph.D.

Helen Fisher, Ph.D., will speak on "Lust, Romance, Attachment: Why Him? Why Her?" Fisher is a biological anthropologist and research professor at the Center for Human Evolution Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is also Chief Scientific Advisor to the Internet dating site Chemistry.com, a division of Match.com. She has conducted extensive research and written five books on the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how personality type shapes who you are and whom you love.

Fisher maintains that humans have evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction: Lust, romantic attraction and attachment. “Love can start off with any of these three feelings,” she says. “But the sex drive evolved to encourage you to seek a range of partners; romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one at a time; and attachment evolved to enable you to feel deep union to this person long enough to rear your infants as a team.”

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