Dorothy Tennov

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Dorothy Tennov (born 1928) is an American psychologist who, in her 1979 book Love and Limerence – the Experience of Being in Love introduced the term "limerence". During her years of research into romantic love experiences, she obtained thousands of personal testimonies from questionnaires, interviews, and letters from readers of her writing, in an attempt to support her hypothesis that a distinct and involuntary psychological state occurs identically among otherwise normal persons across cultures, educational level, sex, and other traits. Tennov emphasized that her data consist entirely of verbal reports by volunteers who reported their love experiences.

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Dorothy Tennov, Ph.D. is a former professor of psychology, student of the philosophy of science, and author of three published nonfiction books. Among her other writings are a prize-wining play about life in a nursing home, reviews of books on scientific subjects, presentations at scientific meetings, and essays. Her television credits include a PBS interview with the late French novelist and essayist, Simone de Beauvoir and appearance in a 1998 BBC documentary, The Evolution of Desire. She has participated in Internet discussions on scientific and political topics while conducting research for the present work and for a forthcoming book in which she plans more fully to analyze the methodologies and philosophies of the human sciences.

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Tennov, Dorothy (1979). Love and Limerence. Maryland: Scarborough House. ISBN 082862864.
Tennov, D. Love and Limerence: the Experience of Being in Love. New York: Scarborough House, 1999.
Tennov, D. A Scientist Looks at Romantic Love and Calls It "Limerence": The Collected Works of Dorothy Tennov. Greenwich, CT: The Great American Publishing Society (GRAMPS), [www.gramps.org/limerence [1]