The latest adaptation of the 36-question method brings together two couples who don’t know one another. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet? Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it? Would you like to be famous? In what way? Those 36 questions were recently popularized in a Modern Love column in the New York Times, and have broken down emotional barriers between thousands of strangers, resulting in friendships, romance and even some marriages. The result is not unlike the accelerated intimacy that can happen between strangers on an airplane or other close quarters. In the nearly 50 years that Arthur and Elaine Aron have studied love, they have developed three dozen questions to create closeness in a lab setting. “Given that I was studying social psychology, just for fun I looked for the research on love, but there was almost none.” “I fell in love very intensely,” said Aron, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and research professor at Stony Brook University in New York. UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner
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