The Science of Love, Cheating, and Long-Lasting Relationships, with Dr. Helen Fisher | Ep. 265

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Dr. Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and senior fellow at the Kinsey Institute, to talk about the three kinds of love and how love operates in your brain, the scientific secret to long-lasting love, the historical and scientific reasons people cheat, the problems with online dating and tips for how to improve your online dating success, the best personality types to pair with your own when looking for a mate, the way drugs can interfere with our relationships, and more. Plus, Megyn Kelly grills her producer on online dating in 2022.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.5	Today is all about love.
0:18.3	What it does to our brain, why it makes us crazy and how do you science to help us find
0:24.4	and more importantly retain lasting love?
0:28.1	Which is possible.
0:29.1	Yay, and it's not just me speaking, it's my expert.
0:32.2	My guest today is biological anthropologist and senior research fellow at the Kinsey
0:37.6	Institute, Dr. Helen Fisher.
0:40.7	Helen, thank you so much for being here.
0:42.6	I'm delighted to be here, Megan.
0:44.5	Thank you.
0:45.5	So that's let's just start with the optimistic note, which I've heard in your TED talks
0:49.9	and in your podcast interviews you've done.
0:53.2	Living love and attachment, long lasting love is indeed possible.
0:59.2	No question about it that is possible.
1:01.4	We've actually proven it in the brain.
1:03.7	I mean, I and my colleagues have now put over 100 people into a brain scanner and studied
1:07.7	the brain circuitry of romantic love and attachment.
1:11.3	The first group were people who had just fallen happily in love.
1:13.6	The second were people who rejected in love.
1:15.9	The third, you're saying are people who were in love long-term.
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