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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...

“I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander “The best smell in the world is that man that you love.” - Jennifer Aniston Pheromone Parties One of the newest trends in matchmaking has little to do with physical attraction. You may be surprised but that what it is. People are being paired based on the way they smell. Here you go – you can try to find your perfect match at so-called pheromone party. Twenty-five-year-old Judith Prays, an Atlanta-based artist, created the idea of pheromone parties to help people find love. Prays said, "It's about romance. Intellectual connection is not always the most important thing in a relationship." Here is how it works: Singles attending the bash are instructed to sleep in the same T-shirt for three nights, and then store it in a plastic bag in the freezer to maintain the scent. Then, participants bring their shirt in the bag ...

How many broken dishes, hearts, and loves you see around? How much pain can be prevented if people mate with those they can be happy with? How you can be sure the person near you is the ONE? Modern science is trying to find an evidence based solution to the questions, and there are claims, the solution is ready. DNA Matching Recently, two companies (Instant Chemistry and SingldOut) have made top news with their launch of a new direct-to-consumer genetic testing service to help determine compatibility in intimate relationships. SingldOut is an online dating service that operates via the professional networking site LinkedIn and uses Instant Chemistry’s genetic testing results to match its members. DNA results become part of each user’s profile, and members can search for and evaluate potential matches based on their genetic compatibility. Instant Chemistry and SingldOut are not the first to promote genetic testing to determine romantic compatibility. In 2008, a company called GenePartne...

The following test was developed by the Sophia Institute - a center of learning that provides innovative programs that foster the rise of the feminine, cultivating wisdom and mindfulness, for a more just, sustainable, and flourishing world. Instructions There is a long list of the personal characteristics presented below. Print the post and highlight all the items that describe more or less precisely your habitual tendencies, the pattern of reaction evident from childhood, with regard to each of the following qualities. Do not select qualities that you would like to have or that you are required to have on the job. Choose those qualities that most often apply to you, that your spouse or best friends would say you have, the qualities you most often gravitate toward in times of ease or resort to in times of stress, and even those less positive tendencies you are trying to avoid. You may trick your manager, your friends or coworkers, but there is no point tricking yourself. If you want re...

Advice for good love: Don’t love those from far away. Take yourself one from nearby. The way a sensible house will take local stones for its building, stones which have suffered in the same cold and were scorched by the same sun.” —Yehuda Amichai, “Advice for Good Love,” Love Poems Everyone may recall that at some point in their life they may see a very attractive person who caught their full attention in the situation when there was no opportunity to approach them, like on the busy street, in the passing car, or even on the news. You were enlightened for a minute, you kept the memories of this person for couple of days, but eventually you forgot about your encounter. That is normal, and the reason is because you never saw that person again. If the stimuli wasn't reinforced you tend to forget about it even if you liked it a lot. Therefore, factor of the physical proximity is so important. It does ensure that continues exposure keeps happening until attraction intensifies. A number ...

What is the Zamora Personality Test? Zamora Personality Test is a software program developed by Antonio Zamora. It uses ten categories of individual and ten categories of social personality attributes that will help you look inside yourself, find out how others see you, and get insights about other persons. The test was developed by creating an inventory of characteristics that people wanted in their ideal mate from an extensive compilation of personal advertisements in newspapers. The characteristics that people wanted were judged "desirable". A list of antonyms was then developed to create a list of "undesirable" traits. Analysis of the traits yielded the division into individual and social attributes and their ten subcategories. The Zamora Personality Test uses a scoring mechanism to determine the degree of intensity of personality traits by analyzing the answers to a set of statements that explore various aspects of internal feelings and past or hypothetical beh...