How to make someone fall in love with you: Five ways, according to science
Look, we’ll say up front that you can’t ‘make’ someone fall in love with you. According to a 1989 study, participants who exchanged mutual and unbroken eye contact for two minutes reported increased feelings of passionate love for each other, even if they were total strangers. According to the ‘scarcity principle’ invented by Robert Cialdini, objects that are rare, unique, or limited in time will make people desire them more 1. Love researcher Arthur Aron’s study of interpersonal closeness resulted in 36 questions that can make anyone, even two strangers, supposedly fall in love. In it, she describes love researcher Arthur Aron’s 1967 study of interpersonal closeness that resulted in 36 questions that can make anyone, even two strangers, supposedly fall in love.


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