Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
We are lied to by our love songs.
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Romantic love is an addiction.
The human brain is built to compare; it’s Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They’ve never found a society that did not have it.
Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years.
Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you’re having a chemical experience.
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they’re also more sensitive to being touched.
Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
There’s biology in everything, even when you’re feeling spiritual.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news – politicians, journalists and celebrities.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.