Love, Sex and Connection with Dr. Helen Fisher

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Let’s say this: the number one driver of happiness across time and culture is meaningful connection to others. So how do you get it and how do you keep it? Dr. Helen Fisher has been studying love for 5 decades. 5. That’s a lot of information. Share this conversation with the people you love. Tons of takeaways that you can integrate immediately. Take Helen’s personality quiz and figure out who you are…and who you aren’t. Funding for this episode was provided by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center as part of its "Expanding Awareness of the Science of Intellectual Humility" initiative, supported by the John Templeton Foundation To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about relationships,
0:10.8	love, romance, sex, and how intellectual humility might make all those things much better.
0:18.9	Whether it's a first date with someone you just met on the internet or a 25-year debate
0:25.3	with a spouse you've been with since college, I'm wondering how can we show up in a more
0:30.5	open, flexible, and humble way. My guest is a biological anthropologist named Dr. Helen Fisher.
0:37.2	She's written six books on the evolution of sex, love, marriage, gender differences,
0:42.2	and how personality styles shape who we are and who we love. So join us as we learn more about
0:48.8	what I would say is the central emotion of a human life, love. We'll be right back with Kelly
0:54.8	Corrigan Wonders. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and my guest today
1:10.1	is Dr. Helen Fisher. She's my new favorite person. She's a biological anthropologist. She is
1:16.4	at the Kinsey Institute as a senior research fellow, and she's the chief science advisor to
1:22.0	match.com. She also created a personality quiz, which we'll link to in the show notes,
1:27.8	to help people better understand themselves and their partners. It's been taken by over 14
1:33.2	million people in 40 countries. So the data set is enormous. Here is my conversation with the
1:40.9	candid, informed, and delightful Dr. Helen Fisher. Helen Fisher, you are the first biological
1:50.4	anthropologist I've ever talked to in my life. So beware, because now that I've found you,
1:55.3	I feel like I'm going to be texting you constantly with little questions about my own relationships.
2:00.5	But can we start by sort of defining two groups of people from your point of view and your research?
2:06.8	One is the new Victorians and two are people in long-term relationships. So what are the
2:11.2	new Victorians and what is slow love? Well, the new Victorians are the young. They're far less
2:17.0	sexual. You know, every part of the life cycle is expanding. I mean, childhood is expanding.
2:22.3	Youth is expanding. Middle age is expanding. And older age is expanding. And so they're slow and
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