Arthur Aron (born July 2, 1945) is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
In 2018, Aron featured in the Australian narrative film 36 Questions.
He earned a PhD in social psychology from the University of Toronto in 1970.
[2] Aron's work focuses on the role, creation, and maintenance of friendship and intimacy in interpersonal relationships.
He developed the self-expansion model of close relationships; it posits that one of the motivations humans have for forming close relationships is self-expansion, i.e., "expansion of the self", or personal growth and development.