Perceptions of Desperation in Others and Self

The current project aims to explore how individuals desperate for romantic relationships are perceived through open-ended questions. It also aims to explore how individuals themselves experience romantic desperation (i.e., thoughts, feelings, behaviors, attitudes), also via open-ended quesitons. This project is exploratory; we have no specific hypotheses. We are interested in how people conceptualize "desperation" and how that might relate to other constructs (e.g., relationship pedestal beliefs, fear of being single, ostracism experiences).