Be your best friend if you'll be mine: Penn's Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 19:49 in Psychology & Sociology

University of Pennsylvania psychologists studying the cognitive mechanisms behind human friendship have determined that how you rank your best friends is closely related to how you think your friends rank you. The results are consistent with a new theory called the Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship, distinct from traditional explanations for human friendship that focused on wealth, popularity or similarity...

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