Overview

• Love is a universal emotion that affects everyone’s life.
• Understanding romantic relationships is a topic that has a wide range of theories across different domains of psychology.
• Individual differences in personality are one of the ways researchers study love.
• In this activity, you will be introduced to one theory of love.
• Dr. Helen Fisher developed a personality test that measures thinking and behavior, which puts people into four broad categories based on neurotransmitter and hormone functions. The four categories are: 
• Explorer: those who primarily express the traits linked with the dopamine system.
• Builder: those who primarily express the traits linked with the serotonin system.
• Director: those who primarily express the traits linked with the testosterone system.
• Negotiator: those who primarily express the traits linked with the estrogen system.
• After completing this activity, you should be able to
  • Have an idea of how people go about studying love.
  • How individual differences play a role in romantic relationships.

Instructions

1. Download the worksheet for this assignment 
2. Go to this link and take the relationship personality quiz https://theanatomyoflove.com/relationship-quizzes/helen-fishers-personality-test/
3. Fill in the worksheet using the results page of your relationship personality quiz.
4. Watch the video in the “More Information” section below to learn more about Helen Fisher’s ideas about the four categories of relationship personalities.

Worksheet and How-To Video

Link to how-to video