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2504

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Elaine Hatfield is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within psychology and social sciences, with contributions particularly in social psychology, gender studies, experimental and cognitive psychology, marketing, and applied psychology.

The scientist's recent publications include the following:

  • "Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting-acquainted interaction," 2022, published in Personal Relationships
  • "Measuring Love Around the World: A Cross-Cultural Reliability Generalization," 2024, published in Sexuality & Culture
  • "Review: Polygamy: An Early American History, by Sarah M. S. Pearsall," 2020, published in Pacific Historical Review

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Susan Sprecher
  • Cyrille Feybesse
  • Boris Forthmann
  • Félix Neto
  • Heinz Holling

Elaine Hatfield often publishes in the following venues:

  • Personal Relationships
  • Sexuality & Culture
  • Pacific Historical Review

Their main fields of study are:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Subfields that their research covers include:

  • Social Psychology
  • Gender Studies
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Marketing
  • Applied Psychology

The central topics of Elaine Hatfield's research work address:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Marriage and Sexual Relationships

Throughout their career, Elaine Hatfield has been recognized by professional organizations in psychology. Notable awards include:

  • William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2012
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association, designated in 1970

Best Publications

  • Equity : theory and research

    Elaine Hatfield;G. William Walster;Ellen Berscheid;William G. Austin

  • Measuring passionate love in intimate relationships.

    Elaine Hatfield;Susan Sprecher

  • Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life

    Elaine Hatfield;Susan Sprecher

  • Gender Differences in Receptivity to Sexual Offers

    Russell D. Clark;Elaine Hatfield

  • Primitive emotional contagion.

    Elaine Hatfield;John T. Cacioppo;Richard L. Rapson

  • Emotional Contagion and Empathy

    Elaine Hatfield;Richard L. Rapson;Yen-Chi L. Le

  • Mate selection preferences: gender differences examined in a national sample.

    Susan Sprecher;Quintin Sullivan;Elaine Hatfield

  • Emotional Contagion: Acknowledgments

    Elaine Hatfield;John T. Cacioppo;Richard L. Rapson

  • The effect of power on susceptibility to emotional contagion

    Christopher K. Hsee;Elaine Hatfield;John G. Carlson;Claude Chemtob

  • Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Elaine Hatfield;Richard L. Rapson

  • A new look at love

    Elaine Hatfield;G. William Walster

  • Equity and Intimate Relations: Recent Research

    Elaine Hatfield;Jane Traupmann;Susan Sprecher;Mary Utne

  • EMOTIONAL CONTAGION Gender and Occupational Differences

    R. William Doherty;Lisa Orimoto;Theodore M. Singelis;Elaine Hatfield

  • New Perspectives on Emotional Contagion: A Review of Classic and Recent Research on Facial Mimicry and Contagion

    Elaine C. Hatfield;Lisamarie Bensman;Paul D. Thornton;Richard L. Rapson

  • Love: American style, Russian style, and Japanese style

    Susan Sprecher;Arthur Aron;Elaine Hatfield;Anthony Cortese

  • The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships

    John H. Harvey;Amy Wenzel;Susan Sprecher

  • Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History

    Elaine Hatfield;Richard L. Rapson

  • Chronic sorrow revisited: parent vs. professional depiction of the adjustment of parents of mentally retarded children.

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  • Love Types and Subjective Well-Being: A Cross-Cultural Study

    Jungsik Kim;Elaine Hatfield

  • Equity and Sexual Satisfaction in Recently Married Couples

    Elaine Hatfield;David Greenberger;Jane Traupmann;Philip Lambert

  • Passionate and companionate love.

    Elaine Hatfield

  • Psychology of Emotion

    John G. Carlson;Elaine Hatfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Sprecher
Susan Sprecher Illinois State University
Christopher K. Hsee
Christopher K. Hsee University of Chicago
Timothy R. Levine
Timothy R. Levine University of Oklahoma
Stephanie Cacioppo
Stephanie Cacioppo University of Chicago
David A. Frederick
David A. Frederick Chapman University
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Ellen Berscheid
Ellen Berscheid University of Minnesota
William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Arthur Aron
Arthur Aron Stony Brook University
Skyler T. Hawk
Skyler T. Hawk Chinese University of Hong Kong

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