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[Rerun] Helen Fisher on Why We Love, Lust, and Live with Helen Fisher

The Psychology Podcast

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The Basics of Animal Attraction

The author says romantic love is a basic brain system that evolved along with the fear system, the anger system, and many other brain systems. It's one of the basic survival mechanisms in all mammals that drive us to choose one individual rather than another. So what are more irrational or crazy love or lust? Well, let me say this: You don't kill yourself when you ask somebody to go to bed with you and they say, no, thank you. Some males do go crazy over that. But the people in the crimes of passion around the world are not from the sex drive because they walk into their own bedroom and walk by with another man,. That kind of thing.

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