Friendships - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/friendships/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:30:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Friendships - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/friendships/ 32 32 The Advantages of Having Similar Friends https://allpsych.com/the-advantages-of-having-similar-friends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-advantages-of-having-similar-friends Wed, 20 May 2020 23:44:28 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2587 Part of what defines a friendship is what that friendship is founded on. For people to be friends, something has to connect them, but the nature of that connection is different from one friendship to the next. In many cases, part of the foundation of a friendship is similarities – in terms of personality traits,…

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]]> What Friendships Can Do for Mental Health in Old Age https://allpsych.com/what-friendships-can-do-for-mental-health-in-old-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-friendships-can-do-for-mental-health-in-old-age Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:27:57 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2434 It seems self-evident that having rewarding social connections should be able to help with healthy aging, but framing that intuition in a scientific way turns out to be surprisingly complicated. There are a couple reasons why that’s the case. The first is that loneliness influences and is influenced by other aspects of our behavior in…

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]]> Friends Cooperate More Efficiently After Exchanging Gifts https://allpsych.com/friends-cooperate-more-efficiently-after-exchanging-gifts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friends-cooperate-more-efficiently-after-exchanging-gifts Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:29:32 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2424 As I’ve written about before, people give gifts for a range of reasons – sometimes simply to do something nice, sometimes because they want to influence others. A new study from researchers in Italy sheds light on another function gifts can serve: increasing teamwork and cooperative performance. In the study, 32 pairs of close friends…

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]]> Study: People You Meet Probably Like You More Than You Think https://allpsych.com/study-people-you-meet-probably-like-you-more-than-you-think/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=study-people-you-meet-probably-like-you-more-than-you-think Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:00:46 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1717 A theme that often comes up on this blog is that people tend to be biased in their judgments about themselves and about the way other people see them. In many situations, it’s as if people are wired not to see themselves accurately. On one hand, people tend to overestimate their own traits in a…

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