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Videos typically show a partner requesting an orange with it peeled, watching for an immediate, affectionate response, or failing that response by not attending to a prompted moment. Experts note the lack of scientific validity, warn about unfair or manipulated context, yet highlight how the activities can spark honest conversations when aligned with a couple’s needs.","PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY  \nPutling RelationshipsTo the Orange Test  \nOnline quizzes,like the citrus peel challenge,can start a conversation  \ntip for all the loversout there:If your be-loved asks you to bringthem a peeled orange,do it.  \nThe orange-peeltest,as seen in videos swarmingsocial media,aims to determinewhether a romantic partner is will-ing to perform tiny acts of service,even if the other person is per-fectly capable of peeling their ownorange.It's one of several love lit-mus tests gaining traction online,as TikTokers and Instagrammerspost videos of their partners'passes and fails.Far from scien-tific—or even fair—these tests givepeople bragging rights,and the lat-est way to put every aspect of lifeonline for approval.  \nThe videos typically beginwhen a woman (the tester is al-most always female;the tested,male)asks her boyfriend for anorange:peeled,please.  \nHis response,ideally,is“Yes,dear.\"He stops whatever he's do-ing,even if he's deep in work orrunning out in a hurry,and soonpresents ready-to-eat citrus.(Cle-mentines count.)Sometimes he'llarrange the wedges in a fun shapelike a sun or face,or say some-thing like,\"a Cutie for my cutie.\"  \nIn the bird test,someone no-tices,say,a bird out the windowand bids his or her partner tocome look.Failing to spring to thebeloved's side suggests,accordingto the online peanut gallery,notcaring about small things thatmatter to the other person.  \nThen there's the ketchup chal-lenge:One person purposely spillssome ketchup on a counter,andasks his or her partner to clean itup.Results are mixed.Some part-ners stand there in disbelief at thepooling ketchup,others clean it upin a flurry of paper towels.  \nFlaunting relationship statusonline is a tale as old as Facebook.These new tests let people hum-blebrag,as few men fail to peel anorange or look at a bird.Sharingthem reassures the poster-andeveryone else on TikTok—that sheis correctly adored.  \nMost relationship tests lack sci-entific backing but are irresistibleanyway.The current crop differsfrom online quizzes or  \nquestionnaires in Cosmobecause they're happen-ing in real life.  \n\"People want diagno-sis,they want answers,\"says Paul Eastwick,a pro-fessor of psychology whoheads the Attraction andRelationships ResearchLaboratory at University  \nof California,Davis.Couples say the testscan open up deeper dia-logue,while others—of-ten male partners-tendto be less happy aboutbeing pop-quizzed oncamera.Commentersshower the couple with  \nM TOP:I5  \npraise or note how their partnersare just as loving.If a person fails,they sometimes urge the couple tobreak up.  \nPeople want to see relationshipdynamics on social media that re-flect what they're experiencing,  \notherwise it may mean there'ssigns of trouble.  \nWhile the concept of some ofthese tests can come from a placeof wanting to do something for apartner,it can be used as manipu-lation and be taken out of context,  \nsays Laurel House,a relationshipexpert at dating site eharmony.Some tests verge on the unfair(though some are staged for thecamera).She warns against put-ting too much faith in one of thesetrending quizzes.Every relation-  \nship is unique,with itsown version of a peeledorange.  \n\"It's more importantto be aware of the littlethings that are happen-ing in your specific rela-tionship naturally andauthentically,as opposedto the little things thatare happening in otherpeople's relationships,”\"she says.  \n# Small favors\n\nCynthia Huang Wang,alifestyle content creatorin San Francisco,re-cently tried the orange-peel test on her hus-  \n◀Cynthia Huang Wang'shusband passed theorange-peel test.  \nband,who isn't active on socialmedia and is oblivious to TikTokand Instagram trends.He peeledthe orange,then broke it in half soit was easier for her to eat.Inother words:A+.  \nHuang Wang,29,says the testmade her feel grateful.“A lot ofgirls didn't get their orangepeeled,\"she says.  \nKylee Cochran recently putJake Dicker,her boyfriend of twoyears,to the ketchup test.Hepassed,starting with a papertow","cbCaieB3biyhI9Zl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieB3biyhI9Zl","pdf",1025794,2,1,4,"English","en",105,"# Personal Technology\n## Small favors\n## Food for thought","[{\"question\":\"What is the orange-peel test and what behavior does it evaluate?\",\"answer\":\"One partner asks the other for a peeled orange and the test gauges whether the person stops what they’re doing and provides it, often with playful effort. 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