Senior Research Fellow
The Kinsey Institute
New York , New York, United States
Helen Fisher, PhD, Biological Anthropologist, is Senior Research Fellow at The
Kinsey Institute and Chief Science Advisor to Match.com. She uses brain scanning
(fMRI) to study the neural systems associated with the sex drive, romantic love,
attachment, rejection, love addiction and long-term partnership happiness. She has
written six books on lust, romance and attachment now sold in 25 countries—
among them: Why We Love; Why Him, Why Her?; and Anatomy of Love (2nd Ed).
She also studies courtship trends in the digital age, using a representative sample
of 50,000 single Americans to examine hooking up, friends with benefits, video
chatting and why today’s dating patterns may lead to decades of relative family
stability—due to a trend she calls “slow love.” Using data collected from her
biologically-based questionnaire, the Fisher Temperament Inventory, now taken by
15+ million people in 40 countries, she is also studying the biological basis of
personality and is a pioneer in examining the neurochemistry of team-building,
innovation and leadership to explain how people of different biological styles of
thinking are predisposed to work, buy, innovate and lead. Fisher appears regularly
on national and international TV, radio, print and podcasts. She is a TED All-Star
with over 12 million views of her TED talks; a recipient of the American
Anthropological Association’s Distinguished Service Award for her work at
presenting anthropological data to the public; and was chosen in 2015 by Business
Insider as one of “The Fifteen Most Amazing Women in Science.”
Saturday, December 17, 2022
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET