PY 491 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: In-Group Favoritism, Tangled, Social Web
21 Feb 2018
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Children"s friendships: children"s friendships are reciprocal, voluntary relationships marked by, mutual affection, shared history, commitment, expectation the relationship will last. Assessing the quality and quantity of children"s friendships: do these kids compared to these kids have better friendships, better, higher quality, higher quantity. Identification of mutual friends: reciprocal friendship nominations: building a sociogram, having friends, and having friends worth having, stable individual differences, children with larger networks are, less lonely, behave better, more socially competent, size does not matter (much) Network structure: size: how many individuals in a person"s network, density: proportion of a child"s friends who are also friends with one another ( 2 , exclusivity: how closed the friendship network is to friendship ties with outside individuals. Jealousy: an aversive emotional reaction to a partner"s contacts or relationship with a 3rd party (interloper) Group life: being in a group offers someone, feelings of inclusion and acceptance, social identity, companionship, aid, stimulation, however, groups demand, cohesion.
