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Irish Mirror
Entertainment
Katie Gallagher

RTE The Love Experiment: New dating show looking for singletons to test famous '36 questions to fall in love'

RTE is looking for singletons to take part in a brand new dating show.

The brand new show, titled 'The Love Experiment’, will see total strangers meet, sit down and ask each other a series of questions that scientific studies suggest could see them meet their perfect partner.

RTE said: “Far removed from the world of dating apps and devices, The Love Experiment brings people back to basics as they seek to make authentic human connections.

“Ask the questions… and you could fall in love!”

Created in 1997 by psychologist Dr. Arthur Aron, the famed 36 questions to fall in love is a study, conducted at Stony Brook University, New York, that tests accelerated intimacy between two strangers.

Dr. Aron conducted this test by bringing a heterosexual man and woman together with a list of 36 questions to test out, followed by four minutes of sustained eye contact.

This couple got married six months later.

The questions are supposed to provoke deep thought and give your date background info on why you are the way you are.

The questions include: “What is your most treasured memory’, ‘What is the greatest accomplishment of your life’, and ‘What do you most regret not having told someone’.

The challenge is to answer the questions openly and honestly, and then stare into each other's eyes in silence for four minutes.

Anyone interested in entering RTE’s new show, featuring the quiz, can fill in an application form here or email theloveexperiment@rte.ie.

It comes after RTE put a call out for people to take part in a new "celebrity dating show" that will air on RTE 2 later this year.

Producers are remaining tight-lipped on the details of the show but have put a call out for single Dubs from the ages of 18 to early 40s to take part - strongly hinting that they could hook up with the celeb of their dreams.

Filming will take place in locations across Ireland this summer.

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