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Dr. Helen Elizabeth Fisher is a biological anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author. Her work focuses on the biology of love and attraction. Currently, she 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.Previously, Fisher was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.In 2005, Fisher was hired by match.com to help build chemistry.com, which used her research and experience to create both hormone-based and personality-based matching systems. She was a speaker at the 2006 and 2008 TED conferences. She has written six books on lust, romance and attachment.Fisher received her B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from New York University in 1968, her M.A. in Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics, and Archeology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1972, and her Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.