Study: Half of your friends does not consider you as a friend Bashny.Net

Surprise! The fact that you think of someone as a friend does not mean that it is of the same opinion concerning you. Although this statement sounds quite obvious, in fact, we almost never take this into account. According to a new study published in the PLS ONE magazine, almost half of the people we think their friends would not consider us their friends back. < Website publishes details.



psychologists interviewed 84 students in one faculty to evaluate another person on a scale of zero to five, where zero value - "I do not know this man," and five means "this is one of my best friends." Participants also recorded their predictions about how each person will evaluate them. Almost all of them gave their assessment and wrote the same his guess at the expense of another person, which meant that they believed their mutual feelings.

< As a result, only 53 percent of people had a mutual friendship, feelings, 47 percent remained undivided, and one person was considered a stranger, although he called in response to him as a friend.

Dr. Erez Shmuel from Tel Aviv University, said: "It turns out that we really do not understand exactly who our friends are. We found out that we can not rely on intuition in this matter. There must be an objective way to determine our relationships and quantify their impact. »

The study concluded: "These results show the inability of people to take a deep friendship on the basis of reciprocity. Apparently, because the inability to mutual friendship defies



self-esteem. " Mental_floss source translation 777s.ru

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