Variables Associated with Friendship in an Adult Population

Johnson, Martin

doi:10.1080/00224545.1989.9712054

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“…For adults and adolescents, similarity between two individuals has been consistently found to be related to interpersonal liking and friendship. Predictors of initial liking and friendship include similarities in attitudes (Byrne & Nelson, 1965;Neimeyer & Mitchell, 1988), behaviors (Urberg, Degirmencioglu, & Tolson, 1998), preferences (Billig & Tajfel, 1973;Brewer & Silver, 1978), and values and background (Johnson, 1989).…”

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Similarity predicts liking in 3-year-old children

Fawcett

Markson

2010

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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a b s t r a c tTwo studies examined the influence of similarity on 3-year-old children's initial liking of their peers. Children were presented with pairs of childlike puppets who were either similar or dissimilar to them on a specified dimension and then were asked to choose one of the puppets to play with as a measure of liking. Children selected the puppet whose food preferences or physical appearance matched their own. Unpacking the physical appearance finding revealed that the stable similarity of hair color may influence liking more strongly than the transient similarity of shirt color. A second study showed that children also prefer to play with a peer who shares their toy preferences, yet importantly, show no bias toward a peer who is similar on an arbitrary dimension. The findings provide insight into the earliest development of peer relations in young children.

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Similarity predicts liking in 3-year-old children

Fawcett

Markson

2010

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

116

103

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“…Studies showed that similarity in attitude (Neimeyer & Mitchell, 1988), behaviors (Urberg, Degirmencioglu, & Tolson, 1998), preferences (Brewer & Silver, 1979), and values and backgrounds (Johnson, 1989) between two unacquainted individuals ignite initial attraction in adults and adolescents. Similarly, school-aged children showed initial attraction toward unacquainted peers who are similar in behavior (Haselager, Hartup, Van Lieshout, & RiksenWalraven, 1998), attitude (Byrne & Griffitt, 1966), and preference (Reaves & Roberts, 1983).…”

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Young Children's Use of Trait Similarity Information to Make Inference of Others

Yoo¹

2015

Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts

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“…In addition, another question (question number 5) was added to address how easy it was for the participants to talk with the friend they brought to the experiment (How easy is it to talk to this person about decisions and/or problems in your life?). This question was added because research (Johnson, 1988) has indicated that one of the most important variables associated with adult friendships is that friends are "easy to talk to." Next, the large range of possible friendship length responses provided on question 5 was condensed in hopes of creating a more precise measure of friendship duration.…”

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Optimism, Pessimism, and Friendship

1998

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Peterson and Bossio (1991) have proposed that pessimistic people, by default, will have predominantly pessimistic friends. We tested that notion by examining the correlation between the scores of close friends on both separate and direct measures of optimism and pessimism (via the O/P instrument) and a measure of explanatory style (EASQ), which purports to tap optimistic-pessimistic tendencies as a bipolar dimension. In two studies, only pairs of male friends yielded significant correlations, and only on the direct optimism measure (r= .65, both studies). Another significant correlation (r=-.37) was found in Study 2 between sensation seeking scores of mixed-sex friends. No between-friend correlations were found in Study 2 for loneliness and assertiveness. Finally, both pessimism, as directly measured, and loneliness were correlated with typical friendship duration (r= -.24 and -.32 respectively), while none of the personality measures were correlated with number of reported friends.The possession of social networks is predictive of physical health, psychological health, and mortality (for reviews see Cobb,

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Variables Associated with Friendship in an Adult Population

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Similarity predicts liking in 3-year-old children

Similarity predicts liking in 3-year-old children

Young Children's Use of Trait Similarity Information to Make Inference of Others

Optimism, Pessimism, and Friendship

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