A Sure-Fire Formula For Falling in Love?

In a recent, much ballyhooed article in the New York Times, writer Mandy Len Catron shared the story of how she fell in love—by following a formula laid out more than 20 years ago by the psychologist Arthur Aron. In the writer’s view, Aron’s method was powerful enough to make two strangers fall in love in just a few hours.

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The article sums up the scientific process this way: “A heterosexual man and woman enter the lab through separate doors. They sit face to face and...