Browsing by Subject "friendship"
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Beyond similarity: Examining potential sex differences in third-party assessments of cues for friendship formation & closeness
(2023-05)Friendships are affiliative bonds that we share with non-kin and can benefit our health and welfare through providing support to handle challenges in our environments. Individuals who can accurately infer which people are ... -
Friendship and commercial societies
(Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2008-08-01)Critics of commercial societies complain that the free-market system of property rights and freedom of contract tends to commodify relationships, thus eroding the bonds of personal and civic friendship. I argue that this ... -
Hormonal contagion: Physiological covariation between friends
(2021-07)Friendships constitute important relationships, and often function to reduce stress, but have been understudied. While engaging in co-ruminations, close female friends are adrenocortically attuned. In mother-child dyads, ...