Arthur Aron Quotes

United States, Professor
July 2, 1945

Arthur Aron is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his work on intimacy in interpersonal relationships, and development of the self-expansion model of motivation in close relationships.

Also known as Psychologist

Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

Arthur Aron
There's this general craving-and-desire system that's engaged, only in this case the desire isn't for money or a drug or power or freedom. The desire is for merging with another person.

Arthur Aron
- Desire
- Person
- Merging

The basic issue about being too close is being closer than you're comfortable with. For some people, even slightly close is too much and for other people being enormously close is great.

Arthur Aron
- Being
- Issue
- Closer
Our findings show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal. Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems.

Arthur Aron
- Brain
- Systems
- Activated
They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?

Arthur Aron