2 ideas from Donald Dutton, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
Researchers had men cross either a rickety suspension bridge or a solid, low one, then meet an attractive interviewer who left her number. Men from the scary bridge called back far…
— Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron, Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction Under Conditions of High Anxiety
In a 1974 field experiment, men who had just crossed a swaying, high suspension bridge rated a female interviewer as more attractive and were more likely to call her later than men…
— Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron, Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety