https://youtu.be/kPYHsFbLLKs Unrequited love is awful. Desperately longing for someone who doesn’t feel the same way is a hopeless, demoralising state. But there’s something even …
What type of limerent are you?
I’ve previously written about the fact that limerence has both universal and personal aspects. The operation of the reward system in the brain follows predictable rules. When a reward is …
The language of love
Following on from last week’s guest post on the history of love research, the central point that “it’s often simply unclear who is talking about what,” captures a lot of the difficulties of …
Guest post: The state of romantic love
One of the headaches of working on limerence is that scholarly research on love suffers from a problem of definitions. Lots of the words we use in everyday life to talk about love have been used (and …
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Limerence, obsessive love, and stalking
I recently came across a new academic paper about limerence, titled: Limerence, Hidden Obsession, Fixation, and Rumination: A Scoping Review of Human Behaviour In it, the authors argue that …
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A new way to look at love
Here's a recording of the talk I gave a couple of weeks ago in Harrogate, to a general audience who were not necessarily familiar with the concept of limerence. It's a rehearsal, so not as slick or …