Mandy Ginsberg, Match.com General Manager for North America, will be introducing Dr. Helen Fisher as the keynote speaker for iDate.
Two years ago I worked with Dr. Fisher and Chemistry.com to build their first blogs. Working with the entire team was rewarding I enjoyed spending time with Helen, who possesses an astonishing amount of knowledge about the science of love.
Helen has a new book coming out this spring which is based on her work with Chemistry.com and I’m sure she’ll be talking about that, although the agenda description is not up on the iDate website yet.
Here’s the blurb from Amazon:
Why do you fall in love with one person rather than another? In this fascinating and informative book, Helen Fisher, one of the world’s leading experts on romantic love, unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us, it turns out, primarily expresses one of four broad personality types—Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator—and each of these types is governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Driven by this biology, we are attracted to partners who both mirror and complement our own personality type.
Until now the search for love has been blind, but Fisher pulls back the curtain and reveals how we unconsciously go about finding the right match. Drawing on her unique study of 40,000 men and women, she explores each personality type in detail and shows you how to identify your own type. Then she explains why some types match up well, whereas others are problematic. (Note to Explorers: be prepared for a wild ride when you hitch your star to a fellow Explorer!) Ultimately, Fisher’s investigation into the complex nature of romance and attachment leads to astonishing new insights into the essence of dating, love, and marriage.
Based on entirely new research—including a detailed questionnaire completed by five million people in thirty-three countries—Why Him? Why Her? will change your understanding of why you love him (or her) and help you use nature’s chemistry to find and keep your life partner.
I personally invite Fernando Ardenghi, Dr. Joel Block, Dr. Jim Houran to listen to Helen speak. I would love to listen in on a conversation between the four of them afterwards.
Details:
8:30 AM thursday January 22
Mandy Ginsberg, (General Manager) Match.com USA, introduces Dr. Helen Fisher, Chief Scientific Advisor to Chemistry.com
Location: B Wing – Rooms B210 & 211
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Hi Dave:
Do you know if Dr. Helen Fisher is going to repeat what she had said at
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/930411
?
“I and my colleagues have put 32 people who were madly in love into a brain scanner and we have found some of the primary brain circuits associated with this intense feeling, passionate love. And I deeply believe that if you can trigger that circuit with someone who is similar to you in some specific social ways and complementary to you in a range of other biological and cultural ways, you can not only trigger this brain circuit for romantic love but keep it percolating for years. It seems to be working”
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“Helen has a new book coming out this spring”
“Drawing on her unique study of 40,000 men and women, she explores each personality type in detail and shows you how to identify your own type.”
“Based on entirely new research—including a detailed questionnaire completed by five million people in thirty-three countries”
More interesting than publishing a book is showing a Success Indicator for Chemistry.
Is Ms. Mandy Ginsberg going to show a Success Indicator for Chemistry?
Does Chemistry (and worldwide rebranded names Daily5, Cupido Diario, Afinesati, Com-Bacio, MatchMe, Chemie, Alchimie, Amor) matches persons who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by other methods?
Do couples matched by Chemistry have lower ‘divorce rates’ than couples matched by other methods?
Which is exactly the percentage of persons who leave the site because they found someone compatible?
I saw only that
Chemistry has a low successful “1.2.3 MEET in person step-by-step process”, low successful first meeting rate for its members
and
its matching method only reported early stage attraction between prospective mates and after the first meeting; in some persons attraction reduces its level OR worse even, morphs/metamorphoses to rejection.
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
Why don’t you come to the show and find out for yourself?
Hi Dave,
I know Helen and her work well, and we two have talked shop on a few occasions. I worked with Mark Brooks to try and arrange a panel discussion on compatibility science at iDate – Miami. Sadly, all the players we wanted were not available this time. It’s great though that Mark followed up and got Helen to appear! She’s a wonderfully fun person. Attendees should expect to have a great time listening to her.
Cheers,
James Houran, Ph.D.
http://www.OnlineDatingMagazine.com
Not available or unwilling to participate? :-)
The top players were not all available to make it on those dates. Actually, the established researchers in this field already know each other, and we get along very well. That doesn’t mean we fully agree on the nuances related to issues, but it’s always constructive when we do interact.
Thanks,
James Houran, Ph.D.
http://www.OnlineDatingMagazine.com