Elaine Hatfield, ph.d.
Dr. Elaine Hatfield is a professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i. She is well known as the scholar who pioneered the scientific study of passionate love and sexual desire.
In 2012, the Association for Psychological Science (APS) gave Elaine an award for a Lifetime of Scientific Achievement. In recent years she has received Distinguished Scientist Awards (for a lifetime of scientific achievement) from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the University of Hawai‘i, and the Alfred Kinsey Award from the Western Region of SSSS. For the past two decades she has been ranked in citation reviews as the most frequently quoted social psychologist in the world. She has often appeared on national television, interviewed by Barbara Walters, Phil Donahue, Hugh Downs, Tom Snyder, and others, and has written many books on her research, among them two books which both won the American Psychological Foundation's National Media Award: A New Look at Love and Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life.
Two recent summaries of Elaine's work are presented in the following publications:
Recently, Drs. Hatfield and Richard Rapson (who are husband and wife) have collaborated on three books: Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History (HarperCollins), Emotional Contagion (Cambridge University Press), and Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Allyn & Bacon.)
The Rapsons have published two collections of short stories: Dangerous Characters and FlimFlam Artists: True Tales of Cults, Crackpots, Cranks, Cretins, Crooks, Creeps, Con artists, and Charlatans; four serious novels: Rosie, Recovered Memories, Darwin’s Law, and Hijacked!; and five detective stories: two Kate MacKinnon murder mysteries (Deadly Wager and Vengeance is Mine) and three Firefly mysteries (The Adventures of Firefly: The World’s Tiniest Detective, Firefly and the Cotswolds Murders, and Take Up Serpents), and The G-string Murders.
In 2012, the Association for Psychological Science (APS) gave Elaine an award for a Lifetime of Scientific Achievement. In recent years she has received Distinguished Scientist Awards (for a lifetime of scientific achievement) from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the University of Hawai‘i, and the Alfred Kinsey Award from the Western Region of SSSS. For the past two decades she has been ranked in citation reviews as the most frequently quoted social psychologist in the world. She has often appeared on national television, interviewed by Barbara Walters, Phil Donahue, Hugh Downs, Tom Snyder, and others, and has written many books on her research, among them two books which both won the American Psychological Foundation's National Media Award: A New Look at Love and Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life.
Two recent summaries of Elaine's work are presented in the following publications:
- Martin, R. J., (2012). Fleecing the science of love: William Proxmire, Elaine Hatfield, and the politics of gender in the 1970s. A dissertation submitted to the University of Hawaii at Manoa in fulfillment of the requirements for a Ph.D in History. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii.
- Reis, H. T., Aron, W., Clark, M. S., & Finkel, E. J. (2013). Ellen Berscheid, Elaine Hatfield, and the emergence of relationship science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 558-572. http://pps.sagepub.com/content/8/5/558.abstract doi: 10.1177/1745691613497966.
Recently, Drs. Hatfield and Richard Rapson (who are husband and wife) have collaborated on three books: Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History (HarperCollins), Emotional Contagion (Cambridge University Press), and Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Allyn & Bacon.)
The Rapsons have published two collections of short stories: Dangerous Characters and FlimFlam Artists: True Tales of Cults, Crackpots, Cranks, Cretins, Crooks, Creeps, Con artists, and Charlatans; four serious novels: Rosie, Recovered Memories, Darwin’s Law, and Hijacked!; and five detective stories: two Kate MacKinnon murder mysteries (Deadly Wager and Vengeance is Mine) and three Firefly mysteries (The Adventures of Firefly: The World’s Tiniest Detective, Firefly and the Cotswolds Murders, and Take Up Serpents), and The G-string Murders.