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Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited

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The 36 Questions Create Closeness, Not Romance

The romantic version people interacted for an hour and a half, whereas typically with the 36 questions create closeness. The prompts start neutral and slowly escalate while people get comfortable with each other. Feeling liked by someone is a huge effect on both general closeness and romantic closeness. Just feeling that someone likes you is pretty powerful.

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