Factor Items
195 items, shown in the original order.
- Love is my supreme virtue. .488
- I spend a lot of time talking about love. .429
- I cannot survive without being loved by someone. .388
- I very much want to be loved. .370
- My needs for closeness and emotional safety overwhelm me. .370
- I want to find someone I love. .347
- I seek deep emotional and spiritual intimacy. .340
- I can be clingy in a romantic relationship. .313
- I need a significant other who entertains me. .308
- I can be needy in a romantic relationship. .303
- When it comes to romantic attraction, captivating my heart is more important than captivating my mind. .303
- I could not pursue a career which was harmful to the world in any way. .297
- I don't understand people who get emotional. -.296
- When I'm attracted to someone I enjoy finding out if it's mutual. .294
- I make decisions based on feelings. .281
- I would rather be with someone I sort of liked than be alone feeling unwanted. .275
- I need another person similar to me to help get me through life. .273
- I believe that love happens all the time, everywhere. .270
- I need to be needed. .268
- I want to be in romantic relationship with someone that I think is awesome. .265
- Happiness is the most important thing in life. .256
- Love is stronger than hate. .255
- I believe I can improve the world by influencing others. .253
- When I'm in a relationship I pretty much stop seeing my friends. .251
- My heart has dictated the path i've taken in life. .250
- After a break up, I'd rather mourn the end of the relationship for months than move on with my life. .247
- I focus more on the hearts of the whole world in determining the right choices to make. .246
- My sense of happiness is affected by the quality of life of everyone on the planet. .243
- I'm usually in a romantic relationship. .243
- When I am depressed, I desire more attention. .243
- I must first approve of the job's larger impact on the world before I'll agree to perform it. .242
- I require a certain amount of attention. .240
- Happiness is truth. .239
- If I feel bad in a relationship, I tend to think/feel it's my fault. .239
- I am easily moved to tears. .238
- I reveal little about myself. -.238
- Correcting injustice in the world is very important to me. .238
- I could be happy alone. -.236
- I have a tendency to think whoever I'm dating is better than all of my previous partners. .232
- When I am depressed, I seek out more attention. .226
- I can't handle romantic rejection. .226
- I let my feelings strongly guide me. .226
- I deserve to be loved a great deal. .223
- I love to chat. .223
- My need to be appreciated by others is very low. -.221
- I enjoy being part of a group. .219
- I find it rewarding to let my feelings guide me in life. .219
- An internally consistent feeling state is more important than an internally consistent logic/rationality. .219
- I focus more on being liked (being attractive) than what I like (what I find attractive). .217
- When I see a person I like connecting with someone else, it bothers me. .215
- I have never been in love. -.210
- I find being appreciated rewarding. .210
- If I'm just sort of into someone romantically but they're really into me, that makes me more interested. .210
- My self esteem is based on how attractive I am to others. .209
- Protecting the environment (nature) is very important to me. .208
- Having close friends is very important to me. .206
- Social justice is very important to me. .205
- I care about being sexually attractive to others. .204
- I could be happy without having kids. -.204
- My actions are predominately motivated by how they'll cause others to view me. .201
- I have tended to notice my significant others before they noticed me. .201 male
- I want to leave a mark, do something that will have a real impact in the world. .198
- I find appreciating others rewarding. .198
- Being disliked by others causes me anxiety. .197
- I focus entirely on getting attention. .194
- Doing volunteer work is a waste of time. -.193
- I would risk my life for something I cared about a lot. .193
- I prefer romantic partners that enhance my image. .192
- I am sexually aroused by things that I think are bad. .192 men
- I live a life based on strongly held personal values and raw emotion associated with my individual human experience. .191
- I value females over males. .189 (male)
- It is hard for me to make a decision if I don't know how others feel about it. .188
- If I'm not moving forward, I feel like I'm going to explode. .187
- Enjoyment of life (food, sex, leisure, etc.) is very important to me. .187
- A promising first date makes me more nervous than an important interview. .187
- I express anger passively, through sullenness (gloomy silence/reserve). .186
- I have difficulty enduring even a mild degree of conflict with those close to me. .186
- Romantically, I imagine abandoning behavior, even when/where it doesn't exist. .185
- Approval is very important to me. .184
- I will have sex whenever my romantic parnter wants to have sex. .183
- Things that make me unattractive to others should be changed. .182
- If a relationship I really cared about didn't work out, it would be hard for me to stay in the same city with them. .182
- Helping others is my oxygen. .181
- Even if I know I don't like someone enough for it to work long term, it can hurt if they break up with me. .180
- If I fix all my (imagined) external flaws, I can feel happy and lovable. .179
- I get upset easily.- -.177
- I value female attention more than male attention. .177 (men)
- A healthy romantic relationship involves equal interest by both parties. .177
- A healthy romantic relationship involves equal effort by both parties. .177
- I get teary eyed easily. .176
- My need to be loved may exceed my capacity to love. .176
- I seek out pleasure. .176
- Physical chemistry is the most important quality in who I like romantically. .173
- I tend to be the comedian around others. .173
- I fear being judged by others. .173
- I focus entirely on being more attractive/perfect than others. .173
- I need a push to get started. .172
- I tend to reject any thought, however logical, that might lead to a disturbance of feeling. .172
- My spiritual life is very important to me. .172
- I conform to others' opinions. .171
- I am or would like to be a stay at home parent. .171
- I feel a responsibility to care for the weak. .169
- I am weak and need a stronger person to carry me through life. .169
- If someone I romantically like says they are not interested in me enough to pursue things, I move on. -.168
- I try to maximize pleasure. .168
- If I was put in isolation with only food and water I would not last very long. .168
- I have a history of health problems. -.167
- I can't make it on my own. .167
- I want to be in relationship with someone that thinks I'm awesome. .166
- People ocassionally tell me that I'm attractive. .165
- I can't allow myself to need anyone. -.165
- I get upset when people don't notice how I look when I go out in public. .164
- When it comes to romantic attraction, captivating my mind is more important than captivating my heart. -.163
- I am concerned with finding harmony and abiding by social structures based on my own subjective beliefs and experiences. .161
- How much I like someone romantically is more important than how much they like me. .161
- I need to be inspired. .161
- I spend a lot of time thinking about food. .160
- I would rather be too mean than too nice.-.160
- I don't like to feel left out. .159
- I am currently or would like to be a stay at home parent in the future. .159
- If it feels better to do A than B, I will do A everytime. .158
- I enjoy being controlled by someone I love. .158
- I think I could have been happy ending up with any of the people I've seriously dated. .158 (male)
- If someone I romantically like says they may not be interested in me enough to pursue things, I move on. -.158
- The safety of my loved ones is very important to me. .157
- It is important to me that I live in a world free of war and conflict. .157
- My sex drive is very high. .155
- I am or would be unhappy if I was overweight. .154
- I value male attention more than female attention. .154 (women)
- I am a cold person. -.154
- I am at peace with myself..154
- I am not concerned with making a good impression. -.153
- My mother was more dominant than my father. (men)
- I am easily discouraged. .152
- I see the world as a struggle between right and wrong. .151
- Early in a relationship, I can quickly discern what's important to someone I like, and become that. .151
- Even the prospect of something better romantically, can eclipse past romantic interests. .151
- I have learned to behave helplessly. .150
- I worry about what people think of me. .150
- I prefer to date people who I feel are superior to me. .150 women
- I believe everything happens for a reason. .150
- When I determine someone I'm romantically involved with isn't the type of person I want to be with, I try to change them. .150
- I an unhappy if I don't have the upper hand in Romantic relationships. .149
- I can get pretty much anyone to like me romantically. .149
- I can be demanding in a romantic relationship. .149
- I become obsessed with manipulating how others feel about me. .149
- I know whether I'm physically attracted to someone within seconds. .148
- People are things to be used. -.147
- It is a disgrace to appear to be wrong. .147
- I try to forgive and forget. .146
- I am open about myself to others. .146
- Our lives are controlled by unknown and unknowable forces. .146
- I prefer sexually submissive romantic partners. .145 (women)
- The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. .145
- If someone I romantically like says they may not be interested in me enough to pursue things, I keep at it. .145 (men) .132 (women)
- I don't mind being the center of attention. .144
- I find getting attention rewarding. .144
- I live to make people laugh. .144
- Finding meaning/purpose in my life is very important to me. .144
- I don't care what others think. -.143
- I prefer a romantic partner that is more accommodating than me. .143
- I want to do well in the public score board of life. .143
- I don't need any more anxiety in my life. .143
- I would be more motivated if the world was more attractive. .143
- I would like to pursue a career in social justice. .142
- I am intensely possessive. .142
- I wish my parents had told my I was special more as a child. .141
- I want to maintain harmony with external things I feel attached to. .141
- I have tended to notice my significant others before they noticed me. .141 male
- If I was to design my own house, I would design it to resemble others houses that I really liked (which I had seen in person or in pictures). .141
- Physical beauty is truth. .140
- My mother was enmeshed/overly-attached (smothering). .140
- The number one quality I look for in a friend is loyalty. .139
- I tend to defer-to/go-along with the wishes of others. .139
- I value beauty the most. .138
- I expect other people to entertain me. .138
- Pleasure (the gratification of my desires) is very important to me. .137
- I have a need to appear better than others. .137
- I strive for internal consistency of my feelings. .137
- If I don't reply to a text message, I probably don't want to talk to the person again. .136
- I get by on my looks. .135
- I prefer sexually dominant romantic partners. .135 (men)
- When I'm in a relationship that I prefer to a recent one, I still occasionally think fondly of the recent one. .135
- A lot of people want to have sex with me. .134
- I always notice the most attractive person in the room. .133
- I am not a fan of the idea of death, of ceasing to exist forever. .133
- When I like someone I give them compliments. .133
- Correcting injustice in the world is very important to me. .132
- I give more than I take. .132
- I tend to want to help people even when it's not good for them and/or me. .132
- Super logical people annoy me. .132
- I like to look at my body. .131
- It is hard for me to make a decision if I don't know how I feel about it. .130
- I lack empathy. -.130
- I think taxing inheritance is a bad idea. .125