Similarity Facilitates Relationships on Social Networks: A Field Experiment on Facebook

Autor:	Nicolas Guéguen, Angélique Martin, Céline Jacob
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Adult Variables media_common.quotation_subject Control (management) Friends Recognition Psychology Compliance (psychology) Young Adult Similarity (network science) Humans Female Interpersonal Relations Social Behavior Psychology Social Media Social psychology General Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Psychological Reports. 113:217-220
ISSN:	1558-691X 0033-2941
DOI:	10.2466/21.07.pr0.113x15z8
Popis:	People interact more readily with someone with whom they think they have something in common, but the effect of an incidental similarity has never been examined on social networks. Facebook users were contacted by a stranger who also possessed a Facebook page and who asked them to become his friend. The request message contained one item of similarity, two items of similarity, or none. Compliance to the request was the dependent variable. Increased compliance to the request was found when comparing the two similarity conditions with the control no-similarity condition. However, no difference was found between the two similarity conditions. Similarity appears to foster relationships on social networks.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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