designed to create romantic love
in the laboratory,
and my own experience
trying the study myself
one night last summer.
So the procedure is fairly simple:
two strangers take turns asking each other
36 increasingly personal questions
and then they stare into each other's eyes
without speaking for four minutes.
So here are a couple of sample questions.
Number 12: If you could wake up tomorrow
having gained any one quality or ability,
what would it be?
Number 28: When did you last cry
in front of another person?
By yourself?
As you can see, they really do
get more personal as they go along.
Number 30, I really like this one:
Tell your partner
what you like about them;
be very honest this time,
saying things you might not say
to someone you just met.
So when I first came across this study
a few years earlier,
one detail really stuck out to me,
and that was the rumor
that two of the participants
had gotten married six months later,