Dorothy Tennov
Dorothy Tennov | |
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| Born | Dorothy J. Tennow August 29, 1928 |
| Died | February 3, 2007 (aged 78) Harbeson, Delaware, U.S. |
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| Known for | Limerence |
| Spouse | Howard S. Hoffman |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | University of Bridgeport |
| Thesis | Performance on two-choice, non-spatial discrimination learning problems by nursery school children of normal IQ (1965) |
Dorothy Tennov (born Dorothy J. Tennow; August 29, 1928 – February 3, 2007) was an American psychologist who invented the term "limerence". Her 1979 book, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, has been called the seminal work on romantic love (also called "being in love", or passionate love in psychology) and credited as largely marking the start of data collection on the phenomenon.