How to Make Friends, According to Science
it takes ninety to 200 hours to turn a stranger or acquaintance into a close friend.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of N... See more
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (Published 2012)
Some social scientists and even philosophers suggest a different vision of friendship, in which friendship is conceived not as a ledger of emotional debits and credits but as an organic creation — an artwork — built by the friends themselves. Conceived in this way, friendships are not ranked or stratified along a bright line from BFF to near strang... See more
Lisa Miller • The Vexing Problem of the ‘Medium Friend’
firmly believe that a robust immersion in quality connection marked by vulnerability, self-disclosure, and empathetic listening, experienced in a concentrated form, can fast-track a friendship into existence in a shorter amount of time.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
