Be Your Best Friend If You'll Be Mine: Alliance Hypothesis For Human Friendship

Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 22:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Psychologists 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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