Emily Spargo
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Emily Spargo
@emspargo.bsky.social
Clinical psych doctoral student studying couple communication & relationship stress @UUtah
🇨🇦Canadian, UVic alum
Thoughts are my own.
The 5 love languages are a popular referencen posed by Baptist pastor, Gary Chapman, but are not actually based in empirical evidence. This is a super interesting paper by Impett et al. that discusses what research actually tells us.

doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective - Emily A. Impett, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Amy Muise, 2024
The public has something of an obsession with love languages, believing that the key to lasting love is for partners to express love in each other’s preferred l...
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March 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM