Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.
When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.
There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
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.
