From: WIRED UK
How to find true friends (and love) in 45 minutes
WIRED UK:
Can you make someone become intimately close to you — even fall in love with you — in less than an hour? Just ask Arthur Aron.
Dr Aron — known to friends as Art — runs the Interpersonal Relationships Lab at Stony Brook University in upstate New York, and he has love on his mind. Passionate love, unreciprocated love, romantic attraction, unexpected arousal, pure lust — all aspects of human intimacy that fascinate this much-published psychology professor specialising in what causes people to fall in and out of love and form other deep relationships (“the self-expansion model of motivation and cognition in personal relationships”, as his CV puts it). He has built his reputation on papers with titles such as “The neural basis of long-term romantic love”, “Motivations for unreciprocated love” and “A prototype of relationship boredom”. But such dry academic language belies the shockingly powerful nature of some of his team’s lab work.
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