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Changes in personal relationships: How social contexts affect the emergence and discontinuation of relationships

peer-reviewed longitudinal panel study Mollenhorst, Volker and Flap, 2014, Social Networks 37, 65-80

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“Changes in shared social contexts drive relationship discontinuation, and network membership changes considerably over seven years while network size stays roughly stable”

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Behavior

Most Friendships End Without a Decision

Friendships are held together by ongoing inputs — shared proximity, unstructured time, reciprocal attention, and low-cost opportunities to be present.