You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy..

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with..

Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows y….

There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is impor….

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to..

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions..

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love..

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed..

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them..

Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive ….

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us..

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to ….

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the m….

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment..

We are lied to by our love songs..

If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work..

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when ….

That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can….

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth..

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby..

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a differe….