News tagged with best friend

How well do you know your friends?

How does your best friend feel when people act needy? Or, about people being dishonest? What do they think when others seem uncomfortable in social situations? According to an upcoming study in Psychological Science, a jour ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Half of your friends lost in seven years

Had a good chat with someone recently? Has a good friend just helped you to do up your home? Then you will be lucky if that person still does that in seven years time. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst investigated how the context ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 7