Romantic love is associated with mind wandering about the beloved. We tested associations between mind wandering about the beloved and infatuation, attachment, self-reported distraction, task performance, and enjoyment. Participants who were in love completed self-report measures and a sustained attention response task with thought probes. Participants reported thinking about their beloved for 67% of the time in general and up to 42% of the time during task performance. Thinking about the beloved in general was positively associated with infatuation (passionate love) but not with attachment (companionate love). The more time participants reported thinking about their beloved in general, the more distracting they found it and the less they could withhold a response to no go stimuli. The more participants thought about their beloved during the task, the slower their responses to go stimuli were. In contrast to the negative terminology typically used to describe frequent thoughts about the beloved, such as intrusive or obsessive thinking, participants overwhelmingly enjoyed thinking about their beloved. The findings suggest that romantic love impairs cognitive task performance because people are thinking about their beloved instead, which may negatively impact performance at school and work. Nevertheless, people seem to greatly enjoy thinking about their beloved.

Keywords: Passionate love; cognition; companionate love; obsession; task performance.

浪漫的爱情与对恋人的思维游移有关。我们测试了对恋人思维游移与迷恋、依恋、自我报告的分心程度、任务表现和享受之间的关联。处于恋爱中的参与者完成了自评量表，并进行了一项持续注意力反应任务，期间包含了思想探针。参与者报告说，在一般情况下他们会花费67%的时间思考他们的恋人，而在执行任务时这一比例高达42%。总体上对恋人的思维游移与迷恋（激情之爱）呈正相关，但与依恋（伴侣之爱）无关。参与者报告的在日常生活中思考恋人的频率越高，他们觉得越分心，并且越难以抑制对“不执行”刺激的反应。任务期间参与者思考恋人的时间越多，他们对“执行”刺激的反应速度就越慢。与通常用来描述频繁思念恋人的负面术语（如侵入性思维或强迫性思维）相反，大多数参与者表示享受思考他们的恋人。研究结果表明，浪漫的爱情会损害认知任务的表现，因为人们在想自己的恋人，这可能会影响学业和工作的表现。尽管如此，人们似乎非常喜欢思考他们的恋人。

关键词： 激情之爱；认知；伴侣之爱；强迫性思维；任务表现。