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Arthur Aron
Researcher at Stony Brook University
Publications - 138
Citations - 22450
Arthur Aron is an academic researcher from Stony Brook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Self & Interpersonal relationship. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 135 publications receiving 20186 citations. Previous affiliations of Arthur Aron include Monmouth University & State University of New York System.
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Intense, Passionate, Romantic Love: A Natural Addiction? How the Fields That Investigate Romance and Substance Abuse Can Inform Each Other
TL;DR: It is proposed that romantic love is a natural (and often positive) addiction that evolved from mammalian antecedents by 4 million years ago as a survival mechanism to encourage hominin pair-bonding and reproduction, and there is a rationale for therapies that may help substance and/or behavioral addiction by promoting activation of these forebrain systems through long-term, calm, positive attachments to others, including group therapies.
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Aspects of possible self that predict motivation to achieve or avoid it
Christina C. Norman,Arthur Aron +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a model of the cognitive basis for the motivational impact of hoped for and feared possible selves and found that motivation to attain or avoid an important possible self was significantly predicted by its availability, response time to features of that possible self, and the extent to which its attainment or avoidance was perceived as under one's control.
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When similars do not attract: Tests of a prediction from the self-expansion model.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed the "bogus stranger" paradigm and focused on similarity/dissimilarity of interests in the context of attraction to a same-gender other.