Not to be overly pedantic, but it's also predicated on a person's understanding of love (in the romantic sense). For example, if one understands love to be sig

Not to be overly pedantic, but it's also predicated on a person's understanding of love (in the romantic sense). For example, if one understands love to be significant emotional attraction, then this type of exercise seems likely to produce it. However, if emotional attraction is necessary but not sufficient, (e.g., a person can't/won't romantically love another without a shared worldview) this exercise will only identify potential friends. Also, to a great extent I agree that love is a choice, but it doesn't strictly follow that if it's possible to love anyone, then love must be a choice. It may also be possible that we can fall in love with anyone by chance, but the chances for a love-producing circumstance are small, so romantic love is infrequent (somewhere between zero to a handful of times per lifetime). On this view, Dr Aron only identified a mechanism for increasing the probability of romance. For the curious, the idea that love (a belief, to an extent) is a choice falls under a hotly disputed umbrella position called "Doxastic Voluntarism" [1]. 1. http://www.iep.utm.edu/doxa-vol/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/doxa-vol/