Adam is an interdisciplinary researcher who employs an “eight perspectives” framework to study love, bonds, and attachments. He uses approaches from ethology, psychology, behavioural science, and ecology and evolution. Adam is currently focusing on five research priorities: the psychology of maternal and romantic love, the evolution of romantic love, love and health, families, and improving the science of love. He values collaboration. Adam hopes to translate his findings into solutions for real-world challenges like the declining fertility rate, societal functioning, and health. The impact of Adam’s research has been recognised with invitations to present at a Royal Society Meeting in 2026 and lead a target article for Evolution and Human Behavior.
Adam has a PhD in Anthropology, Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), and a Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University. He will be commencing as an Honorary Research Fellow in the Evolution Lab at the University of Melbourne’s School of Psychological Science in 2026. Adam has held positions as a Sessional Academic (Psychology) at Federation University Australia in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing.
In 2021, with his co-author, Adam published a comprehensive review of romantic love using multiple biological perspectives and proposed a new, ethologically-informed, definition of romantic love. He is responsible for the loveresearch.info monthly email update of the latest scientific research on love in romantic relationships and annual Symposium. In 2024-25, Adam was one of the Guest Editors for the Behavioral Sciences Special Issue, Advances in the Science of Mating, Love, and Attachment in Romantic Relationships.
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