Susan Hendrick

Susan S. Hendrick is an American psychologist and Horn Professor of Psychology at Texas Tech University. an instrument commonly used in romantic love research.

Career Hendrick received her PhD from Kent State University in 1978.

Later, in Miami, Florida, she was in private practice, and taught at University of Miami.

In 1986, together with Clyde, she developed the Love Attitudes Scale (LAS). Research using the LAS is an extension of the color wheel theory of love invented by John Alan Lee. The LAS has since been translated into a dozen languages.

Hendrick was an associate editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, and served on the editorial boards of Journal of Marriage and the Family and Contemporary Psychology.

In 2005, she was named a Horn Professor by Texas Tech, the highest honor bestowed by the university upon a faculty member.

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