Current Research
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Identifying intrapersonal and interpersonal predictors of compersion
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Examining expressions of love by intimate partners: identifying differences and similarities in how love is typically expressed across various US subcultures.
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Testing the factor structure and predictive validity of Chapman's Five Love Languages Scale.
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Examining whether Chapman's Five Love Languages Scales sufficiently encompasses the diversity of ways love is expressed across cultures.
Recent Research
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Compared relationship satisfaction and romantic attachment across various types of consensually non-monogamous relationships and various ways that consensual nonmonogamy is practiced.​
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Identified personality predictors of attitudes towards and willingness to engage in various forms of consensual non-monogamy.
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Created a quantitative measure of comparison, an informal term well-known in polyamorous communities that connotes the positive emotion one experiences at witnessing their partner’s happiness with another partner.
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·Explored demographic predictors of the experience of compersion.​​
Recent Posters
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Presentations on Consensual Non-Monogamy Research
Feeling Good About Your Partners' Relationships:
Compersion In Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships
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An Exploratory Analysis of Demographic Differences in Experiences of Compersion
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