Helen Fisher is an anthropologist and human behavior researcher at Rutgers University. She is a writer of books related to the biological nature of sex and love and has studied romantic interpersonal attraction for 30 years. From 1984 to 1994 Helen was a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She is a Visiting Research Associate and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies.
Dr. Fisher is an expert in the biology of love as well as attraction. She has written five books on the evolution and future of human sexuality, the chemistry of romantic love, monogamy, gender differences in the brain, adultery and divorce, the human types and why we fall in love with one person rather than another.
Helen's courageous investigations of romantic love - its biochemical foundations, its evolution, and its vital importance to human society - are informing as well as transforming the way people understand themselves. Her travel from southern Africa's Kalahari Desert to Moscow, Tokyo, and again coming back to New York City (her home) helped her to find out if love is different from culture to culture. She also had utilized a technology named fMRI, to look into the brains of about forty women and men who were deeply in love.
An expert in the science of human attraction and a world-renowned anthropologist, Dr. Helen Fisher has authored books such as 'The Sex Contract' , 'The First Sex', 'Anatomy of Love' and her most recent 'Why We Love'. She is currently working on her fifth book about why we choose one partner over another. Her perspectives on women, sexuality, love and gender differences have been featured in National Public Radio, the BBC, Time Magazine, NBC, and CNN.
In her book, “Why We Love: The nature and chemistry of romantic love,” Dr. Fisher says, “My research has proven to me that everywhere, people fall into romantic love. I have come to see this passion as a fundamental human drive. Like the craving for food and water and the maternal instinct, it is a psychological need, a profound urge, an instinct to court and win a particular mating partner.” Her another book, “Why Him? Why Her?” took the question to another level. She explains, “In it, I analyzed how people can find real love by understanding their personality type”.
She is an inspiration for women and has researched on women's psychology. She says, "Women's web thinking, intuition, mental flexibility, long-term planning, creativity, imagination and verbal and social skills - as well as their different views of power - create undeniable win-win strategies in business”.
