On Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez talked to biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, who defined four personality types and their compatibility with each other: "Well, it's all hormones -- yes, I mean, it's hormones, it's neurotransmitters, it's all kinds of chemicals and genes...I call them the explorer, the builder, the director, and the negotiator."
Fisher described the ‘explorer’ type: "An explorer is someone who's very expressive of dopamine. They're very curious, they're very creative. They're very novelty-seeking." Smith asked: "Daring, born free?" Fisher replied: "Yes, energetic, irreverent often, very liberal, very flexible." She gave a few examples, including: "I think Barack Obama is also an explorer, different kind. Well, that daringness, the energy. He even moves like a high dopamine type. They're very comfortable in their skin." Smith added: "High intellectual curiosity." Fisher agreed: "Yes. And that's the point."
Obama had company in the ‘explorer’ category, as Fisher earlier explained: "I think Angelina Jolie's a perfect example. I mean, she's got a tattoo on her body of a -- of a window. You know, ‘let me out. Let me loose. Let me go.’...I mean, she wore a vile of blood around her neck for one of her weddings. And this is -- this is outlandish. I mean it's -- it's charismatic...She’s an explorer." Rodriguez asked about Jolie’s husband Brad Pitt: "And he's definitely that, too?" Fisher responded: "Yes. Oh, absolutely. Very curious, both of them. Very daring."
Smith went on to describe the ‘builder’ personality type: "Another type that you said, there's the builder. Traditional, calm, loyal, boring." Fisher added, "Conscientious" and explained: "I think George Washington was a very good builder. He was the right guy at the right time. He was very traditional. Actually...Steadfast...Steady. I think Gordon Brown is, in England. I think that Tiger Woods is a good builder...The builder goes for the builder, they're traditional. Those, I think, are the red states, actually."
—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.




















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Energetic, Very Flexible, Novelty Seeking and Daring
April 1, 2009 - 17:00 ET by JustAlSounds like a Craigslist ad for an escourt.
Lucy from Peanuts?
April 1, 2009 - 17:13 ET by allanfCharlie Bown's Lucy has just made an apperance on the CBS Morning show and I like 297 million other Americans missed it. Was her advice worth the 5 cents?
allanf... LOL
April 1, 2009 - 17:23 ET by bigtimerallanf...
LOL funny!
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
The real question...
April 1, 2009 - 17:01 ET by c5thenDoes Obama get his dopamine fix by reading from a teleprompter or in spite of it?
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
www.loyaltoliberty.com
This is a modern version of phrenology or even
April 1, 2009 - 17:08 ET by sevenDifferent 'biles" or humours.
Choleric: yellow bile from the liver
Sanguine: blood from the heart
Melancholic: black bile from the kidneys
Phlegmatic: phlegm from the lungs
phrenology?
April 1, 2009 - 17:18 ET by katainkentLike in Bugs Bunny? Would you.. a.... like one lump or two? :)
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Obama does not perform as advertised. I'd like a refund.
Taxed Enough Already.
What a bunch of crap . .
April 1, 2009 - 17:39 ET by jdhawkWhat a bunch of crap . . .
Three sock puppets "entertaining" mindless robots.
+1
April 1, 2009 - 18:39 ET by SeftonSummed up nicely.
I was thinking more along the lines of . ..
April 1, 2009 - 21:04 ET by CKA in Red State USAObama the b***s****er. The destroyer. The mole. The robot. The empty suit...
On the other hand
April 1, 2009 - 21:33 ET by northoneI always thought it was called "narcissism". Who knew!
If Obama is going to be
April 1, 2009 - 21:36 ET by TheBigBIf Obama is going to be Barack the Explorer, then we should be telling him: "SWIPER NO SWIPING!! SWIPER NO SWIPING!!"
"Please be advised that the phone company will be blowing out their transmission lines today. Subscibers are advised to put Ziploc bags over their individual handsets to catch any debris that may come out of their line." Happy April Fools' Day
I'm so glad I have a job that I need to go to in
April 1, 2009 - 21:45 ET by JTPthe morning. I couldn't much of this tripe every day.
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
Lessee...The One can
April 1, 2009 - 23:28 ET by RR GOPLessee...The One can rebuild the Golden Hind, hire on Nancy "The Navigator" Pelosi (she loves longitude, remember?), Richard Chamberlain as the pilot, sail to Japan and befriend the Emperor, and someday Anthony Quinn will narrate his story as one of the Ten Who Dared.
Yeah, I can visualize it!
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
I like how they keep
April 2, 2009 - 07:35 ET by freecitizenI like how they keep inventing pseudo-science to prove to us how Obama is superior to us in almost every way and by virtue of this is entitled to rule (not just govern) over us. I guess that's all you have when there is no record of accomplishments or experience to refer to.
When are they going to let up. For cripes sake, the election is over. You won. Now PROVE that you deserved it and do your freaking job. He was touted as the man with the plan for everything but all we see is legislative disasters written by Congress, not the White House, and promises of some kind of more specific plan down the road.
We don't need Adora the Explorer as president. We need someone who understands why the Constitution is what enables the greatness of this country by empowering the individual and limiting the powers of government. Every great thing ever accomplished has been accomplished by individuals. Groups accomplish nothing but lower us to a common denominator. A Group is only effective when directed by an individual. Individualism vs. collectivism. Freedom vs. statism. It's what it all boils down to.
Being an explorer cool again!!!
April 2, 2009 - 08:00 ET by SickofLibsSo thanks to Obama, explorers are now the good guys again?
Gee, all we've been hearing lately is about how Columbus, Balboa, Pizzaro, Drake, Cortes, etc. were the oppressors, enslavers, and killers... what gives?
And I am sooo sick of this "they're comfortable in their own skin" meme they're shoving down our throats everyday.
Sickoflibs
April 2, 2009 - 08:28 ET by thebutlerdiditI think they mean Obama is like a different kind of explorer. More like Dora, maybe? Of course, she can speak in two different languages, sans teleprompter. Maybe he can learn, iif we just give him time.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
Seems like a competition
April 2, 2009 - 22:21 ET by rbosqueSeems like a competition between liberal talking heads to see who can shove their head up Obama's @$$ the deepest.