Heather A Love
Biographic Data
| ID | 766224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather A Love |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather A |
| FAMILY NAME | Love |
| SIGNATURE | LOVE H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2856-5751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Financial Well-Being Scale among Individuals in Diverse Couple Relationships
Companion animals and ecoexpansive kinship in the lives of LGBTQ + people
Expanding theoretical perspectives on the associations between relationship satisfaction and suicidal ideation
Locating Accountability and Centering the Margins for Ethical Technology Futures
Never Been In A Romantic Relationship
Objective This multi‐method study explores singleness in emerging adults, including reasons for never being involved in romantic relationships. Background Comparative experiences provide insight into developmental processes for emerging adults with prior romantic relationship histories (PRRs) and those who have never been in a romantic relationship (NRRs). Methods We recruited a convenience sample of United States collegiate students ( N = 369) t…
Dyadic Profiles of Romantic Partners' Suicidal Risk and Relationship Distress Presenting for Couples Therapy
Despite the prominence of individuals presenting for therapy with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), there is little research available that examines how one or both members of a couple experience STBs when presenting for couple therapy. Thus, there is a prominent gap in the literature in understanding the types of STBs for both adult partners in a committed romantic relationship presenting for couple therapy, reducing clinicians' preparedne…
Making Modern Maternity
Ecoexpansive kinship
Non‐human animals have long been embedded in society and are well‐documented as integrated into people's lives and families. However, researchers and practitioners inconsistently incorporate companion animals into theoretical conceptualizations of family, despite growing empirical evidence of the substantive impact of companion animals in people's lives. To more accurately capture people's lived realities of companion animals as family members, w…
The highest in each class was a twilight baby”
In the early twentieth century, childbirth was increasingly being viewed as a medical experience in North America. Women were encouraged to engage with 'scientific motherhood' by adhering to medical advice and undergoing the latest medical and technological interventions. Two movements simultaneously emerged that engaged with scientific motherhood: the positive eugenics movement, which sought to encourage reproduction among specific groups, and t…
“Modern neurotic women” and the pains of childbirth
This article positions Sophie Treadwell’s depiction of maternity and hospital-based childbirth in Machinal (1928) as a crucial though underexplored dimension of the expressionistic play’s feminist social critique. Our argument focuses on the fourth of nine episodes, “Maternal,” and reads the protagonist’s traumatic postpartum experience alongside and in the context of contemporary media, medical, and literary publications that articulate emerging…
On Aerial Perspective, Socio-Technical Systems, and Interdisciplinarity
I recently had the pleasure of speaking about my work on the literary and cultural history of cybernetics during a workshop on “Sustainable and Scalable Self-Organization” (SaSSO) at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2023), in Toronto, Ontario [1] . Although the venue might seem an odd fit for an English professor who studies experimental early 20th-century (i.e., “modernist”) authors …
Substance use in sexual minority emerging adults
Introduction, Literary Cybernetics
Introduction, Literary Cybernetics:History, Theory, Post-Disciplinarity Heather A. Love (bio) and Lea Pao (bio) In 1948, mit mathematician Norbert Wiener coined the term "cybernetics"—adapted from the Greek word for "steersman" or "governor"—to describe an emerging technology-based discipline focused on the science of "control and communication in the animal and the machine."1 Cyberneticians posited that machines can be programmed to learn from t…
Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation
In the foreword to Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society, the concept of responsible innovation is pitched as a necessary counterpoint to “innovation’s systemic irresponsibility,” an undertaking that aims to “nudge [technologies’] trajectories in various ways toward responsible, desirable futures” [1, p. xii] . Within the leading journal Responsible Innovation , the concept is often treate…
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality
This mixed‐methods study examines how adults in the United States perceive their romantic partner's response to disclosures of suicidality and how romantic relationship characteristics relate to perceptions of disclosure responses. Participants ( N = 30) recruited from Reddit completed a survey using open‐ and closed‐ended questions about disclosing suicidality to a romantic partner. Qualitative findings highlight validating and invalidating disc…
Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners
The stigmatization of suicidal thoughts and behaviors often prevents disclosure to others, including romantic partners. Minimal research has examined the disclosure or withholding of this stigmatized identity, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the benefits or consequences of informing others. Participants ( n = 61) were recruited from Reddit and completed open-ended questions about their prior suicidal ideation and behaviors while in a roman…
Best Friends Come in All Breeds
Pets are often regarded as family members in US households, but are rarely examined as a source of support for individuals who are suicidal. As suicide rates increase, all potential protective factors must be explored. The attachment bond between pets and their owners is akin to that of bonds with other humans, as pets provide unconditional love and emotional support when owners experience distress. This qualitative study sought to discover and d…
Perpetrator Risk Markers for Intimate Terrorism and Situational Couple Violence
Johnson developed a typology of intimate partner violence (IPV) which includes two different categories of violence: situational couple violence (SCV) and intimate terrorism (IT). Johnson proposed that IT is more likely to be found in clinical samples (e.g., batterer intervention programs or domestic violence shelters) compared to nonclinical (general population) samples. This meta-analysis ( n = 149 studies; k = 216 effect sizes) examines differ…
Covid-19 and LGBTQ Emerging Adults
The coronavirus pandemic that began in December 2019 (COVID-19) quickly spread globally with an increased transmission in the United States beginning in March 2020. Social distancing guidelines were instituted across the country, limiting contact individuals could have with others. This compared the mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) emerging adults who completed the survey before ( n = 1,190) many social dist…
Sexual Assault
The #MeToo movement has sparked thousands of survivors’ stories about sexual assault and abuse. Stories from those in the mental health field, however, remain rare. This article summarizes the experiences of a marriage and family therapist sexual assault survivor. Her story as a client, therapist, and supervisor are provided as insider accounts of survivorship, along with her responses to each. This article details how her sexual assault history …
The Ikehara Collection
Reports on Norbert Wiener's Ikehara Collection which shows one of cybernetics’ previously under-explored paths of influence: into the world of Japanese physics and information technology. It opens up exciting new possibilities for understanding how Norbert Wiener’s ideas have promulgated around the globe into the present
The Cybernetics Moment
Reviewed by: The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age by Ronald R. Klein Heather A. Love (bio) Ronald R. Klein, The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015, 352 pp. $24.95 paper. In The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, Ronald R. Kline sets out to chart "the intellectual and cultural history of the information discourses…
A Conceptualization of Processing Military Sexual Trauma Within the Couple Relationship
Ephelia' and the Duchess
The strongly promoted attribution of the verse of late-seventeenth century woman poet ‘Ephelia’ to Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, should be rejected. Maureen E. Mulvihill's arguments for it are vitiated by circular reasoning and uncritical use of evidence. They also require explaining away much apparently autobiographical reference in the works as fraudulent or part of an elaborate private code. Taking these references at their face…
Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners
The stigmatization of suicidal thoughts and behaviors often prevents disclosure to others, including romantic partners. Minimal research has examined the disclosure or withholding of this stigmatized identity, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the benefits or consequences of informing others. Participants ( n = 61) were recruited from Reddit and completed open-ended questions about their prior suicidal ideation and behaviors while in a roman…
Best Friends Come in All Breeds
Pets are often regarded as family members in US households, but are rarely examined as a source of support for individuals who are suicidal. As suicide rates increase, all potential protective factors must be explored. The attachment bond between pets and their owners is akin to that of bonds with other humans, as pets provide unconditional love and emotional support when owners experience distress. This qualitative study sought to discover and d…
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality
This mixed‐methods study examines how adults in the United States perceive their romantic partner's response to disclosures of suicidality and how romantic relationship characteristics relate to perceptions of disclosure responses. Participants ( N = 30) recruited from Reddit completed a survey using open‐ and closed‐ended questions about disclosing suicidality to a romantic partner. Qualitative findings highlight validating and invalidating disc…
Ephelia' and the Duchess
The strongly promoted attribution of the verse of late-seventeenth century woman poet ‘Ephelia’ to Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, should be rejected. Maureen E. Mulvihill's arguments for it are vitiated by circular reasoning and uncritical use of evidence. They also require explaining away much apparently autobiographical reference in the works as fraudulent or part of an elaborate private code. Taking these references at their face…
A Conceptualization of Processing Military Sexual Trauma Within the Couple Relationship
The Ikehara Collection
Reports on Norbert Wiener's Ikehara Collection which shows one of cybernetics’ previously under-explored paths of influence: into the world of Japanese physics and information technology. It opens up exciting new possibilities for understanding how Norbert Wiener’s ideas have promulgated around the globe into the present
The Cybernetics Moment
Reviewed by: The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age by Ronald R. Klein Heather A. Love (bio) Ronald R. Klein, The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015, 352 pp. $24.95 paper. In The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, Ronald R. Kline sets out to chart "the intellectual and cultural history of the information discourses…
Sexual Assault
The #MeToo movement has sparked thousands of survivors’ stories about sexual assault and abuse. Stories from those in the mental health field, however, remain rare. This article summarizes the experiences of a marriage and family therapist sexual assault survivor. Her story as a client, therapist, and supervisor are provided as insider accounts of survivorship, along with her responses to each. This article details how her sexual assault history …
Perpetrator Risk Markers for Intimate Terrorism and Situational Couple Violence
Johnson developed a typology of intimate partner violence (IPV) which includes two different categories of violence: situational couple violence (SCV) and intimate terrorism (IT). Johnson proposed that IT is more likely to be found in clinical samples (e.g., batterer intervention programs or domestic violence shelters) compared to nonclinical (general population) samples. This meta-analysis ( n = 149 studies; k = 216 effect sizes) examines differ…
Covid-19 and LGBTQ Emerging Adults
The coronavirus pandemic that began in December 2019 (COVID-19) quickly spread globally with an increased transmission in the United States beginning in March 2020. Social distancing guidelines were instituted across the country, limiting contact individuals could have with others. This compared the mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) emerging adults who completed the survey before ( n = 1,190) many social dist…
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality
This mixed‐methods study examines how adults in the United States perceive their romantic partner's response to disclosures of suicidality and how romantic relationship characteristics relate to perceptions of disclosure responses. Participants ( N = 30) recruited from Reddit completed a survey using open‐ and closed‐ended questions about disclosing suicidality to a romantic partner. Qualitative findings highlight validating and invalidating disc…
Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners
The stigmatization of suicidal thoughts and behaviors often prevents disclosure to others, including romantic partners. Minimal research has examined the disclosure or withholding of this stigmatized identity, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the benefits or consequences of informing others. Participants ( n = 61) were recruited from Reddit and completed open-ended questions about their prior suicidal ideation and behaviors while in a roman…
Best Friends Come in All Breeds
Pets are often regarded as family members in US households, but are rarely examined as a source of support for individuals who are suicidal. As suicide rates increase, all potential protective factors must be explored. The attachment bond between pets and their owners is akin to that of bonds with other humans, as pets provide unconditional love and emotional support when owners experience distress. This qualitative study sought to discover and d…
Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation
In the foreword to Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society, the concept of responsible innovation is pitched as a necessary counterpoint to “innovation’s systemic irresponsibility,” an undertaking that aims to “nudge [technologies’] trajectories in various ways toward responsible, desirable futures” [1, p. xii] . Within the leading journal Responsible Innovation , the concept is often treate…
“Modern neurotic women” and the pains of childbirth
This article positions Sophie Treadwell’s depiction of maternity and hospital-based childbirth in Machinal (1928) as a crucial though underexplored dimension of the expressionistic play’s feminist social critique. Our argument focuses on the fourth of nine episodes, “Maternal,” and reads the protagonist’s traumatic postpartum experience alongside and in the context of contemporary media, medical, and literary publications that articulate emerging…
On Aerial Perspective, Socio-Technical Systems, and Interdisciplinarity
I recently had the pleasure of speaking about my work on the literary and cultural history of cybernetics during a workshop on “Sustainable and Scalable Self-Organization” (SaSSO) at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2023), in Toronto, Ontario [1] . Although the venue might seem an odd fit for an English professor who studies experimental early 20th-century (i.e., “modernist”) authors …
Substance use in sexual minority emerging adults
Introduction, Literary Cybernetics
Introduction, Literary Cybernetics:History, Theory, Post-Disciplinarity Heather A. Love (bio) and Lea Pao (bio) In 1948, mit mathematician Norbert Wiener coined the term "cybernetics"—adapted from the Greek word for "steersman" or "governor"—to describe an emerging technology-based discipline focused on the science of "control and communication in the animal and the machine."1 Cyberneticians posited that machines can be programmed to learn from t…
Making Modern Maternity
Ecoexpansive kinship
Non‐human animals have long been embedded in society and are well‐documented as integrated into people's lives and families. However, researchers and practitioners inconsistently incorporate companion animals into theoretical conceptualizations of family, despite growing empirical evidence of the substantive impact of companion animals in people's lives. To more accurately capture people's lived realities of companion animals as family members, w…
The highest in each class was a twilight baby”
In the early twentieth century, childbirth was increasingly being viewed as a medical experience in North America. Women were encouraged to engage with 'scientific motherhood' by adhering to medical advice and undergoing the latest medical and technological interventions. Two movements simultaneously emerged that engaged with scientific motherhood: the positive eugenics movement, which sought to encourage reproduction among specific groups, and t…
Dyadic Profiles of Romantic Partners' Suicidal Risk and Relationship Distress Presenting for Couples Therapy
Despite the prominence of individuals presenting for therapy with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), there is little research available that examines how one or both members of a couple experience STBs when presenting for couple therapy. Thus, there is a prominent gap in the literature in understanding the types of STBs for both adult partners in a committed romantic relationship presenting for couple therapy, reducing clinicians' preparedne…
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Financial Well-Being Scale among Individuals in Diverse Couple Relationships
Companion animals and ecoexpansive kinship in the lives of LGBTQ + people
Expanding theoretical perspectives on the associations between relationship satisfaction and suicidal ideation
Locating Accountability and Centering the Margins for Ethical Technology Futures
Never Been In A Romantic Relationship
Objective This multi‐method study explores singleness in emerging adults, including reasons for never being involved in romantic relationships. Background Comparative experiences provide insight into developmental processes for emerging adults with prior romantic relationship histories (PRRs) and those who have never been in a romantic relationship (NRRs). Methods We recruited a convenience sample of United States collegiate students ( N = 369) t…
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)