In honor of the month of love, Scientific American Mind magazine features a special section on how to fall in love…and not fall out! Professor Robert Epstein teaches a class at the UCLA San Diego on the science of relationships and let his lucky students be the guinea pigs. Eight students paired up randomly and rated how much they liked, loved or felt close to their partner. Then the Prof asked each “couple” to look deep into the other’s eyes. After two minutes of Soul Gazing, here’s what happened: 7% reported an increase in loving (one point added for one person in one couple); 11% liked each other more; and 45% felt closer. Then he had the whole class pair up to try it, and 89% of the students said they felt more intimate with each other. Whew!! That’s just one of the exercises he suggests. Maybe this love thing isn’t so hard after all!

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