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Now I'm curious to see the same experiment stopping with the 3 minutes of eye contact as a control. Maybe that's all it takes.

• tchaffee 4y ago
  That's an extremely long time for eye contact. I bet you could get that time down too.
  • saurik 4y ago
    The NYT article that is the context for these tweets quotes the author of the column which reported on this research (so indirect, lol) as disagreeing, FWIW: > The final task Ms. Catron and her friend try — staring into each other’s eyes for four minutes — is less well documented, with the suggested duration ranging from two minutes to four. But Ms. Catron was unequivocal in her recommendation. “Two minutes is just enough to be terrified,” she told me. “Four really goes somewhere.”
• astrange 4y ago
  You can cause pets like rabbits to bond by putting them in a bathtub together and putting food in their fur so they groom each other. Might work.