That being said, the NYT piece does misrepresent the 1991 vs the 1997 study, e.g. they do the 36 questions from 1997 but then use the 1991 study’s marriage as the framing device:
A heterosexual man and woman enter the lab through separate doors. They sit face to face and answer a series of increasingly personal questions. Then they stare silently into each other’s eyes for four minutes. The most tantalizing detail: Six months later, two participants were married. They invited the entire lab to the ceremony.
That being said, the NYT piece does misrepresent the 1991 vs the 1997 study, e.g. they do the 36 questions from 1997 but then use the 1991 study’s marriage as the framing device: