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In the ’90s, social psychologist Dr. Arthur Aron led a study which showed how certain meaningful questions were able to rapidly build emotional intimacy between two people who had never met each other.
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Art Aron 36 questions. A. Aron et al. (1997). “The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 23: 363–77.
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8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
Arthur Aron • The 36 Questions That Lead to Love (Published 2015)
A series of thirty-six questions that, as Elaine and Arthur Aron later wrote, elicited “sustained, escalating, reciprocal, personalistic self-disclosure.”
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling ... “