The LOVE model of bliss
A psychological model of bliss built on four dimensions of lived love — the theoretical spine of everything we design and measure.
The research division of LOVE AND BLISSStudies · Ethics governance · Open repositoryRigorous, ethically governed research into love, spirituality and human flourishing.
The LAB Institute · Research
Studying how love is lived and bliss is learned
Everything we publish begins here. Each study below has passed our ethics governance and is shared openly, so participants, partners and reviewers can see exactly what we are learning.
Constitutional instrument · Version 1.0 — August 2026
The LAB Publishing Charter
A publishing ecosystem in which scholarship is judged by scholarship, not by the author's ability to pay.
Six principles — Merit Before Money, Editorial Independence, Universal Access, Scholarly Reciprocity, Mission-Based Sustainability and Human-Governed AI — bind The LAB Institute, LAB Press, JPPAS and every future LAB journal, book, report and convening.
Read the CharterResearch themes
Three questions we keep asking
Measuring love
Psychometric development and validation, including the LOVE Assessment Tool (LAT), so flourishing can be tracked honestly over time.
Adversity, spirituality and flourishing
How faith, meaning and religious coping shape the way people grow through suffering rather than merely survive it.
How a study travels
One governed path, every time
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Proposal
A study is registered with its aims, design, population and outputs before any data is collected.
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Ethical review
Section-by-section application, risk tiering and conflict-checked reviewers, closing with a recorded committee decision.
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Delivery
Participants are consented and pseudonymised, and assessments stay separated from the people facilitating sessions.
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Publication and closure
Findings are published with DOIs, open datasets are deposited, and the study record is closed with an auditable trail.
Public register
Studies open to the public
No studies have been published to the public register yet. Our founding study — the Bliss Enhancement Programme pilot — is currently in delivery, and its protocol and outputs will appear here as they are released.
Read about the BEP pilotFollow the evidence
Our findings are published openly with permanent identifiers. Read the peer-reviewed papers, browse open datasets, or meet the people behind the work.
Ready to share your research?
Open the submission workspace to create your submission record, upload your manuscript and supporting files, and receive a Submission ID the moment automated governance screening begins.