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NEWS -- Oct 13 -- Helen Fisher, an anthropologist and research
professor at Rutgers University's Center for Human Evolutionary
Studies, specializes in love, marriage, and gender differences. She's
the author of four books, including her most recent, titled Why We
Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. She believes that the
type of person we are attracted to is hardwired into our neurons,
etched by a combination of hormones, brain chemicals, and childhood
experiences. As an adviser to new spinoff, Chemistry.com (backed
by Match.com), Fisher is trying to
quantify that certain something we're all looking for in a mate. "Most
people fall in love because they have shared values, but they stay in
love because their personalities mesh. Childhood also plays an
enormous role in shaping likes and dislikes. I want to know not
only what your brain chemistry is, but what was successful for you in
the past. What really astonishes me is that I came up with four
basic personality types in my research, and these same four types have
been described by Plato, aristotle, Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs." One of
the questions on Chemistry.comasks how long your index finger is compared to your ring finger. A
person with an index finger shorter than the ring finger will have been
exposed to more testosterone while in the womb, and a person with an
index finger longer than the ring finger will have had more estrogen.
In women, the two fingers are usually equal in length, as measured from
the crease nearest the palm to the fingertip. In men, the ring finger
tends to be much longer than the index finger. FULL ARTICLE @ YAHOO NEWS

Mark Brooks: My interview with Jim Safka, Match.com CEO, goes live on OPW on Tuesday.