Why there is research on limerence
This is a mirror of a Medium article here: https://medium.com/@shiverypeaks/why-there-is-research-on-limerence-8aa3edbed0fd . My name is David and I write Wikipedia articles about romantic love, including “ Limerence ”, “ Romance ”, “ Biology of romantic love ”, “ Reward theory of attraction ”, “ Obsessive love ” and “ Love addiction ”, which I recommend reading. Also see my article “ The state of romantic love ”, about the history of semantic issues around the term “romantic love”, which Tom Bellamy was generous enough to post on his website. In this article here, I’m going to explain how to understand what scientific research is relevant to limerence, and also explain the history of why people on the internet think there isn’t any. Dorothy Tennov is highly cited in the literature on romantic love, and actually many authors have written about limerence (even from a clinical perspective). Academics on love unanimously consider Tennov’s book to be a canonical work on passionate love. Th...