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From 1984 to 1994 she was a research associate in the department of anthropology at the american museum of natural history. Helen fisher is a biological anthropologist and senior research fellow at the kinsey institute. Helen created it to test the degree to which you express four broad styles of thinking and behaving, each associated with one of four basic brain systems. From love at first sight and infidelity to hookup culture and slow love, dr. The nature and chemistry of romantic love paperback bargain price, december 9, 2004. Helen fisher is a research professor and member of the center for human evolutionary studies in the department of anthropology at rutgers university. Helen fisher, an anthropologist at the american museum of natural history.
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