Editing Limerence (section)

=== Readiness ===
Some people may have a heightened susceptibility to limerence, a state Tennov calls "readiness", "longing for limerence" or being "in love with love".<ref>{{harvnb|Tennov|1999|pp=106–109}}</ref><ref name=":21">{{Cite journal |last=Verhulst |first=Johan |date=1984 |title=Limerence: Notes on the nature and function of passionate love |url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1984-31378-001 |journal=Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=115–138}}</ref> This may occur due to biological factors such as adolescence, but also psychological factors like [[loneliness]] and discontent. Sometimes readiness can be so intense that a person falls in love with somebody who only has a minimal appeal.<ref name=":21" />

Shaver and Hazan observed that those suffering from loneliness are more susceptible to limerence,<ref>{{Citation| last1 = Shaver| first1 = Phillip| last2 = Hazan| first2 = Cindy| title = Compatible and Incompatible Relationships| chapter = Incompatibility, Loneliness, and "Limerence"| editor-last = Ickes| editor-first = W.| pages = 163–184| publisher = Springer, New York, NY| date = 1985| doi = 10.1007/978-1-4612-5044-9_8| isbn = 978-1-4612-9538-9}}</ref> arguing that "if people have a large number of unmet social needs, and are not aware of this, then a sign that someone else might be interested is easily built up in that person's imagination into far more than the friendly social contact that it might have been. By dwelling on the memory of that social contact, the lonely person comes to magnify it into a deep emotional experience, which may be quite different from the reality of the event."<ref>{{harvnb|Hayes|2000|p=460}}</ref>