The Love Quiz, Introduction
— -- Eros. Ludus. Storge. Pragma. Mania. Agape. These are the six styles of love.
Each of these Greek words represents a love category described by sociologist John Alan Lee Clyde in the 1970s. In 1986, Clyde and Susan Hendrick, husband-and-wife psychology professors at Texas Tech University, used the six categories to develop the quiz we present here.
But don’t break out in a test-anxiety sweat, advises Hendrick. “People should have fun with the test,” she says. “They should use it as a means to talk to about love. There’s no right or wrong.”
There are just different styles of love. What’s yours? There’s only one way to find out. Go out on a romantic limb and take the test.
This test originally appeared in “A Theory and Method of Love” by Clyde and Susan Hendrick, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50 (1986), pp. 392-402. Copyright 1986 American Psychological Association. Reproduced with permission of the authors and the American Psychological Association.
This version is adapted from The Love Test by Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz, Perigree Books. Copyright 1998 by Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz. Used with permission of the authors.
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