Discuss psychologist Arthur Aron’s experiment that seeks to make people fall in love. 300 words

Read: To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html?_r=0

Discuss psychologist Arthur Aron’s experiment that seeks to make people fall in love.

300 words

Use your own experience and the information in the book provided to decide how difficult love lasting a lifetime might actually be. If it is difficult, why is it so difficult?

Loving someone for life gets a bit of a rough treatment in the book On Romantic Love. As it turns out, many couples fall out of love and seem to be staying together out of a sense of commitment. There are alternative ways of going about romance, polyamory for instance, but is loving one person for life really as difficult as it is portrayed in the book? There are statistics in the book, could there be any way to explain how those statistics are biased or incorrect? Use your own experience and the information in the book provided to decide how difficult love lasting a lifetime might actually be. If it is difficult, why is it so difficult? What things could people do differently to make loving for a lifetime easier? Is it mostly in *who* someone choses to love?

Does privacy really matter to you? Why or why not? 

Human- vs Non-human Capital

Think of an example in your life where human capital was in conflict with non-human capital and describe it.  Which had the power advantage in your example, and why?

Question 2:

Does privacy really matter to you? Why or why not?

Required Readings

Allen, A. ( 2009). Driven into society: philosophies of surveillance take to streets of New York. Amsterdam Law Forum. 1 (4), 35-40. Retrieved from http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/92/157

Prins, C. (2009). Selling my soul to the digital world?. Amsterdam Law Forum, 1(4), 7-10. Retrieved from http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/89/153

Ostergaard, S. D. (2004). European trends in privacy: how can we increase internet security and protect individual privacy?. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2 (2), 25-29. Retrieved from http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/P282885.pdf

Shiffman, G., & Ravi, G. (2013). Crowdsourcing cyber security: a property rights view of exclusion and theft on the information commons. International Journal of the Commons, 7(1), 92-112. Retrieved from http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/view/343/318

TED. (2014, October). Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters

Human- vs Non-human Capital

Think of an example in your life where human capital was in conflict with non-human capital and describe it.  Which had the power advantage in your example, and why?

Give examples of goals or events that might make someone happy

The book On Romantic Love points out that being happy is a lifelong goal that often has subordinate goals, like being successful in a career or having intelligent or successful children, as paths you can take to become happy. Give examples of goals or events that might make someone happy. Is there a way you can categorize sources of happiness? How does the main character attempt to achieve happiness in the movie The Words, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840417/?