Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled onc...
Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
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.
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.
Romantic love is an addiction.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.
There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.
Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that...
Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.
A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.
