
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
- Download the worksheet for this assignment
- Go to this link and take the relationship personality quiz https://theanatomyoflove.com/relationship-quizzes/helen-fishers-personality-test/
- Fill in the worksheet using the results page of your relationship personality quiz.
- 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