
Emotional Promiscuity Scale
Do you fall for people hard and fast, and often end up regretting it? Take this test to find out if it's love at first sight or 'emophilia.'
By Mark Travers, Ph.D.
February 21, 2024

By Mark Travers, Ph.D.
February 21, 2024
Mark Travers, Ph.D., is the lead psychologist at Awake Therapy, responsible for new client intake and placement. Mark received his B.A. in psychology, magna cum laude, from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder. His academic research has been published in leading psychology journals and has been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other popular publications. He is a regular contributor for Forbes and Psychology Today, where he writes about psycho-educational topics such as happiness, relationships, personality, and life meaning. Click here to schedule an initial consultation with Mark or another member of the Awake Therapy team. Or, you can drop him a note here.
Emophilia, or emotional promiscuity, describes the tendency to fall in love quickly, frequently and less discriminately. This pattern can lead to unhealthy relationships and emotional consequences. Those with emophilia may overlook red flags and be drawn to partners with dark personality traits.
The rush of falling in love can be thrilling, but seeking it out repeatedly can create harmful attachment habits–leading to unprotected sex, high risk of infidelity and falling for toxic partners. Learning to recognize and break this cycle is crucial for building healthier relationships.
The Emotional Promiscuity Scale (EPS) is a 10 item tool used to asses emophilia, developed by Daniel Nelson Jones. By systematically quantifying emotional promiscuity-related thoughts and behaviors, the EPS provides researchers and practitioners with a valuable tool for comprehensively assessing this phenomenon. Everyone has a certain threshold of falling in love; for some, it can happen in an instant, and for others, it can take a lifetime. In emophilia, this threshold is reached much faster than for most people.
You can take this test here. Please follow all of the steps to receive your results.
References: Jones, D. N. (2011). The Emotional Promiscuity Scale. In T.D. Fisher, C.M. Davis, W.L. Yarber, & S.L. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (3rd ed., pp. 226–227). New York, NY: Routledge.