Staring

Here's one more quirky tidbit on relationships;
same researcher involved as last post.

"Professor Arthur Aron has been exploring the dynamics of what exactly happens when two people are falling in love. Even the simple action of looking into each other's eyes has a power of its own as proved in his experiments with two complete strangers. For ninety minutes he asked numerous strangers to self disclose intimate details about themselves such as their most embarrassing moment, and how they would feel if they lost a parent, as well as express what they liked about the other person. At the end they were asked to stare into each other's eyes without talking for four minutes. The results were amazing in that many of the couples confessed to feeling deeply attracted and close to the other person. Two of his subjects even married six months afterwards!" From http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/psychology/news/newsletter/newsletter2.pdf

What do you think? Worth giving it a try? Even for longer-attached types?

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Four minutes of staring is rather long...
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Gregg and I have some minutes to spare; there's nothing but a teeny bit of time to lose, and potential for 'deeply attracted and close' to gain. Yep, tonight's the night.

Gregg & Dee, Sunset Point, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. 2006.

Let me know how it works for you.