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Helen Fisher: Technologyhasn't changed love. Here's why

原视频链接

https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_technology_hasn_t_changed_love_here_s_why

Speaker’s biography:

Fisher's severalbooks lay bare the mysteries of our most treasured emotion: its evolution, itsbiochemical foundations and its vital importance to human society. Fisherdescribes love as a universal human drive (stronger than the sex drive;stronger than thirst or hunger; stronger perhaps than the will to live), andher many areas of inquiry shed light on timeless human mysteries like why wechoose one partner over another.

Section 1:

I study thebiology of personality, and I've come to believe that we've evolved four verybroad styles of thinking and behaving, linked with the dopamine, serotonin,testosterone and estrogen systems. So I created a questionnaire directly frombrain science to measure the degree to which you express the traits -- the constellation of traits -- linked with each of these four brain systems. Fourteen million ormore people have now taken the questionnaire.

And as it turnsout, those who were very expressive of the dopamine system tend to be curious,creative, spontaneous, energetic. They’re drawn to people likethemselves. People who are very expressive of the serotonin system tend to betraditional, conventional, they follow the rules, they respect authority, theytend to be religious -- religiosity is in the serotonin system -- andtraditional people go for traditional people. In that way, similarity attracts.In the other two cases, opposites attract. People very expressive of thetestosterone system tend to be analytical, logical, direct, decisive, and theygo for their opposite: they go for somebody who's high estrogen, somebody who'sgot very good verbal skills and people skills, who's very intuitive andwho's very nurturing and emotionally expressive. We have naturalpatterns of mate choice. Modern technology is not going to change who we chooseto love.

Vocabulary:

constellation;draw; intuitive; nurturing

Section 2:

But technologyis producing one modern trend that I find particularly important. It'sassociated with the concept of paradox of choice. For millions of years, welived in little hunting and gathering groups. You didn't have the opportunityto choose between 1,000 people on a dating site. We can embrace about five tonine alternatives, and after that, you get into what academics call"cognitive overload," and you don't choose any.

So I've come tothink that due to this cognitive overload, we're ushering in a new formof courtship that I call "slow love." 67 percent of singles inAmerica today who are living long-term with somebody, have not yet marriedbecause they are terrified of divorce. They're terrified of the social, legal,emotional, economic consequences of divorce. Today's singles want to know everysingle thing about a partner before they wed.

But the humanbrain always triumphs, and indeed, in the United States today, 86percent of Americans will marry by age 49. I did a study of 1,100 married peopleand I asked them a lot of questions. But one of the questions was, "Wouldyou re-marry the person you're currently married to?" And 81 percent said,"Yes."

Vocabulary:

Ushering;triumph

Section 3:

I'm not a Pollyanna; there's a great deal to cry about. As William Butler Yeats, thepoet, once said, "Love is the crooked thing." I would add,"Nobody gets out alive." We all have problems. But in fact, I thinkthe poet Randall Jarrell really sums it up best. He said, "The dark,uneasy world of family life -- where the greatest can fail, and the humblestsucceed."

But I will leaveyou with this: love and attachment will prevail, technology cannotchange it. And I will conclude by saying any understanding of human relationshipsmust take into account one the most powerful determinants of human behavior:the unquenchable, adaptable and primordial human drive to love.

Vocabulary:

Pollyanna;crooked; prevail; unquenchable; primordial

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