With great sadness and sorrow, the International Institute of Love Studies announces that Dr. Helen E. Fisher, the world’s expert on romantic love, passed away on August 17, 2024, at the age of 79, in New York, United States.

Helen Fisher, a renown biological anthropologist, was instrumental in bridging the gap between academic knowledge of love and the popular science of lust, romantic love, and attachment.

The Diversity of Love Journal has published an obituary for Helen Fisher, a towering figure in the study of love.

Sam Joel, María Alonso-Ferres, and Hannah Williamson are editing a special issue of Personal Relationships, focused on measurement and assessment issues (broadly construed) in the field of close relationships. We are looking for articles on topics such as:

• Careful validity testing of existing, widely used measures within close relationship (e.g., convergent validity, divergent validity, predictive validity)
• Careful generalizability testing of existing, widely used measures within close relationships (e.g., to different populations, languages, and contexts)
• Validity testing of non-self-report measures in close relationships (e.g., experimental manipulations, observational coding schemes, implicit measures)
• The development and validation of new, improved measures of existing, widely used constructs in close relationships

Initial abstracts will be due December 1, 2024, and the full manuscript will be due a year from then, providing ample time to complete any projects that are currently at a nascent stage. You can find our full call for papers here: https://osf.io/egha5

The 2024 loveresearch.info Symposium will be held online at 1200 EDT (1800 CEST) on Friday 25 October. Presentations will be 12 minutes with three minutes for questions. All work related to the science of love in romantic relationships is welcome! Abstract submission is open and will finish on Monday 30 September.

Submissions can be made here:  https://anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cYBZkUl1iWGecpU