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Trigger for interpersonal attraction Can you make someone become intimately close to you -- even fall in love with you -- in less than an hour? Psychologist Arthur Aron not only claims that this is fairly possible, but he succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Doctor Aron -- known to friends as Art -- runs the Interpersonal Relationships Lab at Stony Brook University on the north shore of Long Island, east of New York City, and his passion is love. Passionate love, unreciprocated love, romantic attraction, unexpected arousal, pure lust -- all aspects of human intimacy that fascinate this much-published psychology professor specializing 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 resume puts it). He has built his reputation on papers with titles such as "The neural basis of long-term romantic love", "Motivati...