Elaine Hatfield

Elaine Hatfield (formerly also known as Elaine Walster[1]) is an American social psychologist.[2] She has been credited, alongside Ellen S. Berscheid, as the pioneer of the scientific study of love.[3] She is employed as a professor in the psychology department of the University of Hawaii.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Sternberg, Robert J.; Weis, Karin (2006). The New Psychology of Love. Yale University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-300-11697-7.
  2. ^ Etcoff, Nancy (2 February 2011). Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-307-77911-3.
  3. ^ Reis, Harry T.; Aron, Arthur; Clark, Margaret S.; Finkel, Eli J. (2013). "Ellen Berscheid, Elaine Hatfield, and the Emergence of Relationship Science". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 8 (5): 558–72. doi:10.1177/1745691613497966. PMID 26173214. S2CID 11402943.