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Given that friendships provide people with many mental, social, and health benefits, [32] people should want to associate with and form lasting relationships with people who can provide the benefits they need. Thus, people have specific friendship preferences for the types of behaviors and traits that are associated with these benefits. [33]
Numerous large-scale in-person and online experiments have documented this phenomenon in the intervening years. Beginning in the early 2000's, Christakis and Fowler explored the impact of social connections on behavior, describing how social influence and social contagion do not end with the people to whom a person is directly connected. People ...
Social support can come from a variety of sources, including (but not limited to): family, friends, romantic partners, pets, community ties, and coworkers. [14] Sources of support can be natural (e.g., family and friends) or more formal (e.g., mental health specialists or community organizations). [33]
Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...
Well-being is what is ultimately good for a person or in their self-interest. It is a measure of how well a person's life is going for them. [1] In the broadest sense, the term covers the whole spectrum of quality of life as the balance of all positive and negative things in a person's life.
Homophily is a cause of homogamy—marriage between people with similar characteristics. [32] Homophily is a fertility factor; an increased fertility is seen in people with a tendency to seek acquaintance among those with common characteristics. [33] Governmental family policies have a decreased influence on fertility rates in such populations ...
At the other extreme are relationships that are barely blips on the social radar, such as people with adjoining season seats for a game or same-time-next-year conventioneers. [2] [3] Another factor that shapes a relationship is the level of investment and stability. People are committed to their intimates, less so to their consequential strangers.
Conditions do not need to be life-threatening, one's social group can help deal with work anxiety as well. When people are more socially connected have access to more support. [22] Some of the health issues people have may also stem from their uncertainty about just where they stand among their colleagues.