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Ohio University’s 2016-17 Kennedy Lecture Series continues Tuesday, Oct. 11, with a leading expert on the biology of love and attraction.
Helen E. Fisher presents “Anatomy of Love” at 7:30 p.m. in OHIO’s Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the event is free and open to the public.
Helen Fisher ©Casey Kelbaugh
An American biological anthropologist, Fisher is a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and a member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
Fisher researches human behavior and has become one of the most referenced scholars among those who study love and human attraction. Her expertise has been sought by Internet dating site match.com where she serves as chief scientific adviser. She has spoken at two TED Conferences and has been featured on several news programs and in the documentary “Sleepless in New York.”
Over the past 35 years, Fisher has penned six books that explore the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain, and how a person’s personality style shapes who that person is and who they choose to love. Her most recent books include: Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage and Why We Stray, published this past February; Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love, released in 2010; and Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, published in 2004.
Ohio University’s Kennedy Lecture Series was established in 1962 by a gift from OHIO alumni and stalwart supporters Edwin L. and Ruth Kennedy. The series aims to bring speakers who appeal to a broad cross-section of the OHIO community to the Athens Campus to discuss significant issues in American life.
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