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Participants provide demographic information, then complete questionnaires assessing limerence symptoms, obsessive thoughts, compulsions, and individual differences affecting everyday functioning. The protocol includes the Willmott Limerence Scale and a limerence-specific OCD measure, plus scales for obsessive beliefs, maladaptive daydreaming, anxiety and depression, and dissociation/derealisation to support comprehensive sample description and analysis.","Project Description  \nMethods  \nParticipants will be asked for basic demographic information (age, gender, ethnicity, country of origin), so that we can fully describe the sample as part of the report. Following collection of demographic data, participants will be asked a to complete a series of questions and questionnaire measures.  \nLimerence measures  \nExisting studies of limerence rely on participants to self-report current or past limerence experiences using single questions after a description of the term. We will use a similar approach, providing a description of limerence (according to characteristic symptoms) and how it differs from ‘falling in love’ and ‘crushes’. This description is based on existing literature on limerence, notably from Watkin & Vo (2008) and reports of those with lived experience (Willmott & Bentley, 2015) .  \nParticipants who report either being currently limerent or having previous experience of limerence will then be asked to complete two measures which explore: (1) individual differences in the experience of limerence symptoms and (2) the impact of obsessive thoughts and compulsions on everyday functioning.  \n(1) Willmott Limerence Scale. The first measure is one recently developed by Lynn Willmott and is currently being validated. We have received permission to use this measure from the author. The scale consists of 25-items comprising two factors: rumination on fixed attachment and dissociation experiences and self-disintegration. Participants respond to items about their current or past LO (e.g. , “I have/had been thinking about them more than anyone or anything else”, “I have/had often constant anticipating/rehearsing events regarding future interactions with them”) from 1(strongly agree) to 5(strongly disagree) .  \n(2) Limerence specific OCD scale. This scale is a modified version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS; Goodman et al. , 1989) recently developed by Evans, Poerio & Kellett (in prep) . The scale comprises two subscales, one assessing the impact of obsessive thinking about the LO, the other assessing the impact of compulsive behaviours related to the LO. For each item (e.g. , “How much distress do your obsessive thoughts related to your LO cause you?”), participants rate levels of distress experienced from 0(none) to 4(near constant and disabling distress) .  \nSeveral other questions will also ask about the history of Limerence experiences and current limerence state, taken from Evans, Poerio & Kellett (in prep):  \nLimerence history:  \n(1) How many limerent episodes have you had in your life?  \n(2) At what age did you start experiencing limerence?  \nCurrent/past limerence: Participants are then asked the following questions relating to their current or most recent LO:  \n(1) Are you currently in a limerent episode? (Yes/No)  \n(2) If yes, when did this limerent episode start, and if no, how long did your limerent episode last?  \n(3) What is your current relationship to this LO?  \n(4) What type of contact do you now have with this LO? Response options: in contact, some contact (i. e. , see them or look at their social media but do not engage with them), no contact)  \n(5) Thinking about the past week, how much on average, have you: (a) spent engaging with this LO? and (b) spent thinking about this LO? Participants respond using a sliding scale from 0 (none) to 100 (a lot) .  \nQuestionnaire measures completed by all participants:  \n(1) Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions will be measured with the Obsessive Belief Questionnaire (OBQ-44) is a 44-item revision of the original Obsessive Belief Questionnaire (Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group, 2005) . This measure explores features associated with obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms, specifically, the three facets of (1) Responsibility and threat estimation, (2) Perfectionism and intolerance for uncertainty, and (3) Importance and control of thoughts. 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