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...Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Fisher, an Australian actress whose breakthrough moment happened around a dinner table with Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers, is a nifty performer. Her charms are enough to keep the movie - entering the marketplace just as the country's financial situation becomes truly dire - from being criminally distasteful. She's got that rare gift for making slapstick seem organic. Confessions runs her through the chick-flick moves of endearment (walk into glass, run in high heels, spill food on self and others), but there are a few scenes where she cuts loose and we get to see her Lucille Ball-style...
...times of upheaval, nothing offers safe harbor like science. That's where Helen Fisher comes in. A biological anthropologist at Rutgers University, she combed through reams of genetic literature and analyzed the answers to 40,000 surveys she conducted on the dating site Chemistry.com for which she is a paid adviser. Her research led her inside the biological mechanisms of mate choice. In Why Him? Why Her?, Fisher posits that there are four broad temperament types--"explorer," "builder," "director" and "negotiator." Each of these types is expressive of a different neurochemical system: dopamine and norepinephrine; serotonin; testosterone; and estrogen. Using...
...When you're on a date, if you understand your primary type and the type of person whom you're going out with," suggests Fisher, "you can better reach them and create more intimacy." (One telltale sign: the ring fingers of directors are longer than their index fingers.) In the future, might singletons be able to use a blood test to zero in on prospective mates, saving us a lot of effort and enabling us to wear jewelry? "Possibly," she says...
...Chart": I don't think it was the least bit "predictable" that Jennifer Hudson sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl [Feb. 2]. Given what she's been through in the past six months, it showed remarkable fortitude for her to manage to perform yet at all. Jennifer Fisher, TUCSON, ARIZ...