Kelly Corrigan and Edward Lichty ask each other the 36 questions for The Science of Happiness podcast.
If you could change one thing about the way you were raised, what would it be? . Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing, and why? These are among the 36 questions developed at UC Berkeley 50 years ago by psychologists Arthur and Elaine Aron to fast-track intimacy in a laboratory setting. This Valentine's Day, as more people are apt to focus on electronic gadgets than on one another, the 36 questions to accelerate human closeness are a fitting theme for The Science of Happiness podcast , co-produced by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and Public Radio International. Hosted by UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner, an expert on the science of emotions, the series applies research-tested findings to the universal quest for a joyful and meaningful life. This week's "happiness guinea pig” is Kelly Corrigan, bestselling author of the memoir The Middle Place , among other books. For the podcast, Corrigan and her husband, Edward Lichty, ask each other the 36 increasingly personal questions, and are blown away by how much they still don't know about one another after more than a decade of marriage. "One thing that struck me was that you can be married to someone for 16 or 17 years and still feel incredibly awkward around them ..
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