Running experiments to understand love from "summary" of The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
As soon as she entered the lab, the idea hit her like a bolt of lightning - she could apply the scientific method to love. It was a crazy notion, but the more she thought about it, the more it made sense. Love, after all, was just another human experience, right? So why not treat it as such - as something that could be dissected, analyzed, and understood through experiments?With a newfound determination, she set out to conduct her very own love experiments. She meticulously planned each one, carefully designing variables, controls, and hypotheses. From observing couples in the wild to manipulating social situations in the lab, she left no stone unturned in her quest for answers. The results were both enlightening and confounding. Some experiments seemed to confirm long-held beliefs about love - the importance of mutual interests, the power of physical touc...
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