36 QUESTIONS TO FALL IN LOVE

OPEN UP TO GET CLOSER

1997

Popularised by Mandy Len Catron’s Modern Love column in The New York Times in 2015, this is a list of 36 questions first used by social psychology researcher Arthur Aron in an experiment entitled The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness. The questions are grouped into three sets, each intended to reveal more about your personality, hopes and dreams than the last. The idea behind the experiment, which should take about 45 minutes to complete, is that vulnerability fosters closeness. They may not result in love, but according to Arthur, they almost always make two people feel better about each other and want to see each other again.