Elaine Hatfield is a professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai'i. She is well known as a scholar who pioneered the scientific study of passionate love and sexual desire.

In 2012, the Association for Psychological Science (APS) will give Elaine an award for a Lifetime of Scientific Achievement. In recent years she has received Distinguished Scientist Awards (for a lifetime of scientific achievement) from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the University of Hawai‘i, and the Alfred Kinsey Award from the Western Region of SSSS. For the past two decades she has been ranked in citation reviews as the most frequently quoted social psychologist in the world. She has often appeared on national T.V., and has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Phil Donahue, Hugh Downs, Tom Snyder, and others.

She has written or co-written books based on her research, among them two books which both won the American Psychological Foundation's National Media Award: A New Look at Love and Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life.

Recently, Hatfield and her husband Richard L. Rapson

Richard Rapson

Richard L. Rapson is an American professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.- Background :Rapson earned his B.A. magna cum laude at Amherst College in June 1958, and served briefly there as an instructor in American Studies. He then taught history at Stanford University from...

have collaborated on three books: Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History (HarperCollins), Emotional Contagion (Cambridge University Press), and Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Allyn & Bacon.)

The Rapsons have also published Dangerous Characters (a collection of short stories), four serious novels: Rosie, Recovered Memories, Darwin’s Law, and Hijacked! and five detective stories: two Kate MacKinnon murder mysteries (Deadly Wager and Vengeance is Mine) and two Firefly mysteries (The Adventures of Firefly: The World’s Tiniest Detective and Take Up Serpents), and The G-string Murders.

Theoretical papers and chapters:

• Hatfield, E. & Berscheid, E. (1968). The effects of time on cognitive consistency. In R. P. Abelson; E. Aronson, W. J. Mc Guire, T. M. Newcomb, M. J. Rosenberg & P. H. Tannenbaum. (Eds.), Theories of cognitive consistency: A sourcebook (pp. 599-608). Chicago: Rand McNally.
• Berscheid, E. & Hatfield , E. (1969). Attitude change. In J. Mills (Ed.), Experimental social psychology (pp. 121-232). New York: MacMillan.
• Hatfield, E., Berscheid, E., & Walster, G. W. (1970). The exploited: Justice or justification? In J. R. Macaulay & L. Berkowitz (Eds.), Altruism and helping behavior (pp. 179-204). New York: Academic Press.
• Hatfield, E. (1971). Passionate love. In B. I. Murstein (Ed.), Theories of attraction and love (pp. 85-99). New York: Springer Press.
• Hatfield, E. & Abrahams, D. (1972). Interpersonal attraction and social influence. In J. Tedeschi (Ed.), The social influence process (pp. 197-238). Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.
• Berscheid, E. & Hatfield, E. (1974). Physical attractiveness. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 7, 158-216. New York: Academic Press.
• Hatfield, E. & Berscheid, E. (1974). A little bit about love: A minor essay on a major topic. In T. Huston (Ed.), Foundations of interpersonal attraction (pp. 355-38l). New York: Academic Press.
• Hatfield, E. & Walster, G. W. (1976). Interpersonal attraction. In B. Seidenberg & A. Snadowsky (Eds.), Social psychology: An introduction (pp. 279-308). New York: The Free Press.
• Hatfield, E., Berscheid, E., & Walster, G. W. (1976). New directions in equity research. In L. Berkowitz & E. Hatfield (Eds.). Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 9 . (Equity theory: Toward a general theory of social interaction) (pp. 1-42). New York: Academic Press.
• Berkowitz, L. & Hatfield, E. (Eds.). (1976). Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 9. (Equity theory: Toward a general theory of social interaction). New York: Academic Press. (Not in files.)
• Austin, W., Hatfield , E., & Utne, M. K. (1976). Equity and the law: The effect of a harmdoer’s suffering in the act on liking and assigned punishment. In L. Berkowitz & E. Hatfield, (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 9 (pp. 163-190). New York: Academic Press.
• Hatfield , E., Utne, M. K. & Traupmann, J. (1977). Equity-theorie und intime sozialbeziehungen. In G. Mikula & W. Stroebe (Eds.), Freundschaft und liebe: Psychologische ansatze zur entwick-lung zwischenmenschlichen beziehung. (Friendship and love: Psychological approaches to the development of interpersonal relationships) (pp. 193-220). Berne, Switzerland: Huber. (Not in files)
• Hatfield, E. & Walster, G. W. (1977). The social psychology of jealousy. In G. Clanton & L. G. Smith (Eds.), Jealousy (pp. 91-100). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall/Spectrum.
• Hatfield, E., Walster, G. W., & Piliavin, J. (1978). Equity theory and helping relationships. In L. Wispe (Ed.), Altruism, sympathy, and helping (pp. 115-139). New York: Academic Press.
• Utne, M. K. & Hatfield, E. (1978). Equity theory and restitution programming. In B. Galaway & J. Hudson (Eds.), Offender restitution in theory and action (pp. 73-87). New York: D. C. Lexington Books.

Books

• Berscheid, E. & Hatfield, E. (1969). Interpersonal attraction. New York: Addison-Wesley. [ISBN: 0-201-00560-3].
• Hatfield, E., Walster, G. W., & Berscheid, E. (1978). Equity: Theory and research. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. [ISBN: 0-205-05929-5].
• Hatfield, E. & Walster, G. W. (1978). A new look at love. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. [Winner: American Psychological Foundation's “National Media Award.”] [ISBN: 0-9191-4957-8].
• Berscheid, E. & Hatfield, E. (1978). Interpersonal attraction, (2nd ed.) Reading, MS: Addison-Wesley. [ISBN: 0-201-00569-7]
• Griffitt, W., & Hatfield, E. (1984). Human sexual behavior. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co. [ISBN: 0-673-15057-7]
• Hatfield, E., & Sprecher, S. (1986). Mirror, mirror: The importance of looks in everyday life. New York: SUNY Press. [Winner: American Psychological Association's “National Media Award,” 1986.] [ISBN: 0-88706-124-9]
• Carlson, J. G. & Hatfield, E. (1992). Psychology of emotion. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. [ISBN: 0-03-055419-5]
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1993). Love, sex, and intimacy: Their psychology, biology, and history. New York: HarperCollins. [ISBN: 0-06-500702-6]
• Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J., & Rapson, R. L. (1994). Emotional contagion. New York: Cambridge University Press. [ISBN: 0-521-44948-0]
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. (1996/2005). Love and sex: Cross-cultural perspectives. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. [ISBN: 0-205-16103-0] Reprint: Lanham, MD: University Press of America. [ISBN 076183232-7.]