Interpersonal Chemistry

  Interpersonal chemistry refers to a perceived instant connection that exists when meeting a person for the first time. Carl Jung explained it extremely well when he said that the meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there’s any reaction, both are transformed. We all know what this type of experience feels like. The beginning of a friendship or flirting with someone you like also has this kind of alchemy that science has been studying for a long time. In an almost magical exchange, everything from positively valenced emotions to a whole cocktail of…