Helen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat

http://www.ted.com Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.

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[ramanevo lasava]

Men and women whoever you are, find out your strengths and weaknesses, follow your strengths and work around your weaknesses. Don't let the media, your neighbour, your peeps or your family decide what is good for you. Decide it yourself and you will have a happy, successful, life.

Know that there is hard work in front of you, and just sitting and thinking that you will be happy will not make you happy at the end of the day.

[Aileen Yap]

I'm not saying to defend feminist..

but women has been oppressed all the history of human being..

so a rise of women should means celebration of human evolution :)

[Nick Schillaci]

Who hurt you Helen Fisher?

Who hurt you?

...who hurt you...

[william russell]

cocaine and caffeine have the same lethal dose range so what's the big deal outside of racism and oppression, the people in peru used it for thousands of years and still survived and flourished

[william russell]

they are tricking you the best antidepressants are opioids and that's what used to be used before big pharma lies came along with mass advertising, and you don't need a lot just like a vitamin - subliminal but your brain knows

[legalman07]

i agree completely. oppression is wired in our natures, we can make small changes but they will come back in some form. that sounds depressing but only in understanding weaknesses can we make room for real change.

[Joshua Swifte]

I have been taking anti depressants for 7 years I was lonely and depressed at university and unhappy I am still lonely and depressed

[Allan Seas]

women like money.... they will try to find wealthy men, therefore nothing (but the way of opression) has changed

[sirvidia]

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