Elaine Hatfield

Elaine Hatfield (formerly also known as Elaine Walster; born October 22, 1937) is an American social psychologist. She has been credited, alongside Ellen Berscheid, as a primary pioneer in the scientific study of love, initially with contributions to the emerging field of interpersonal attraction in the 1960s. The Passionate Love Scale, developed later in 1986 by Hatfield and Susan Sprecher, is one of the most widely used in the field.

She is employed as a professor in the psychology department of the University of Hawaii.