Helen Fisher (anthropologist)

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Helen Elizabeth Fisher (May 31, 1945 – August 17, 2024) was an American anthropologist, human behaviour researcher, and self-help author. She was a biological anthropologist, a senior research fellow at The Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, and a member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Fisher said that when she began researching for her dissertation, she considered the one thing all humans have in common – their reproductive strategies. She and several collaborators authored the first MRI study to associate early-stage romantic love with brain areas such as the ventral tegmental area, which produces dopamine in response to viewing images of one's beloved. In 2005, she was hired by match.com to help build chemistry.com, which used her research and experience to create both hormone-based and personality...

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