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How Friendship Actually Works
A close friend takes about 200 hours together. Where you happen to spend your days decides who gets them.
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Friendship
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people that is stronger than an acquaintance or casual association.
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Proximity principle
The proximity principle explains why people form relationships with those physically nearby due to familiarity and repeated passive contact.
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Self-disclosure
Self-disclosure is the communication process where one person shares private information about themselves with another person.
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Interpersonal ties
Interpersonal ties are the information-carrying connections between individual people in a social network.
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Dunbar's Number
Dunbar's number is the cognitive limit of roughly 150 stable relationships a human can maintain, predicted by neocortex size.
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Loneliness
Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional reaction to perceived or actual social isolation.