Profiles four broad personality types that are determined by brain chemistry to explain why people are attracted to specific partners, counseling readers on how to pursue romantic relationships in accordance with natural compatibilities.
Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us, it turns out, primarily expresses one of four broad personality types--Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator--and each of these types is governed…
Introduction -- Connecting with Mr. Right through his three brains -- "Beauty is in the (cool) eye of the beholder"--Stand by your man -- Playing hard to get -- A friend in need -- If the cowardly lion can get it, so can you -- Opposites attract -- A line drawn in the sand -- Li…
Introduces a nine-step program designed to help readers find love, examining the three stages of a successful romantic relationship--attraction, bonding in friendship, and commitment--and explaining how to use them to build enduring love.
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates,…
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates,…
"Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates…
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates,…
Eavesdropping on nature: why him? why her? -- Who are you?: the chemistry test -- The hand you're dealt: nature's dice -- "Drink life to the lees": the explorer -- Pillars of society: the builder -- Always to the stars: the director -- Philosopher kings: the negotiator -- Playma…
Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us, it turns out, primarily expresses one of four broad personality types--Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator--and each of these types is governed…
"Helen Fisher unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us primarily expresses one of four broad personality types: Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator. Each of these types is governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Driven by this biology, we…
Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story. In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we are also guided by what Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman call Mating Intelligence--a range of mental abil…