Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love - and people who had just been dumped.
Helen E. Fisher (born 1947) is an American anthropologist and human behavior researcher. She is a professor at Rutgers University and has studied romantic interpersonal attraction for over thirty years. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.