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Are Cross-race Friendships Really a Panacea for Interracial Relations?

Anyone with genuine cross-race friendships will likely tell you, it is not that simple.

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Do Your Friendships Feel Different? Covid May Be to Blame

Public health measures aimed at slowing the spread of the pandemic, such as social distancing, have made it harder for some people to maintain friendships.

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The Friend Number Paradox

When your social assets become your social liabilities.

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Good Friends Protect Shy College Freshmen from Loneliness and Depression

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The Beatles sang, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” So do shy first-year college students as they adjust to the college transition.

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Friends with unexpected benefits – working with buddies can improve performance

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We routinely work together with other people. Often, we try to achieve shared goals in groups, whether as a team of firefighters or in a scientific collaboration. When working together, many people – naturally – would prefer doing so with others who are their friends. But, as much as we like spending time with our friends, is working with them in a group really good for our performance?

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Friendships, Vaccines, and Impressions: Upcoming Studies in SPPS

While many scientists explore what people have in common, several studies publishing online to Social Psychological and Personality Science show us how differences help us understand individuals.

The company you keep: Personality and friendship characteristics, Michael Laakasuo; Anna Rotkirch, Venla Berg, Markus Jokela

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Female friends who (co)ruminate together stay together

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3, 2, 1… Go! Name your best friend. Which special person comes to mind? Perhaps you have more than one best friend. These are people that you feel vDiego Guevara Beltránery close with, that you turn to for help, or when you’re simply looking to spend time with someone that you care about. Do you ever wonder, however, how you came to be so close with this one, or few, special people?

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Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI October 12, 2018

A new study suggests there is a financial cost to being kind . See what else you may have missed online.

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Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI September 7, 2018

This week's round-up includes an op-ed on the power of colloboration and integrated thinking. See what else you may have missed online.

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Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI August 10, 2018

In the news this week: the benefits of uncertainty, procrastination, slacking at work, and cats. See what else you may have missed online.

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