Limerence research survey

Following on from a previous research project, I was recently contacted by a team from the University of Sussex in the UK who are running a new project, in collaboration with the team from Sheffield.

Here’s the advert:

This project seems to be an attempt to both validate a set of questions that help define limerence – an endeavour we’ve also been attempting here – and to look for correlations between limerence and other conditions (such as OCD and attachment disorders).

To get the best quality data, the team will need a cross section of people who vary in their personality types, psychological temperaments, childhood experiences, and adult beliefs – so I would encourage as many people as possible to contribute if you have the time.

Contributions from LwL readers will be a rather biased sample (limerents looking for relief from distress, and SOs looking for advice about how to cope with a limerent partner, mainly), but we can at least hopefully boost the number of limerents taking part. I think the same problem of sampling bias is going to be an issue for those directed to the study by therapists, as they are more likely than most to have “co-morbidities”. So, again, I’d encourage the stably attached and/or recovered limerents to take part too, if you can.

Full details of the study methodology and contact details for the team can be downloaded here:

Information sheet

Detailed Methods

You can sign up by clicking the image above, or this link.

Good luck to the researchers. Let’s get to work answering some of those pesky unanswered questions about limerence!