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Social Psychology Developmental psychology The Journal of Social Psychology

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Relationship maintenance across platonic and non-platonic cross-sex friendships in emerging adults

Harry Weger, Megan F. Cole, Valerie Akbulut
The Journal of Social Psychology Summary & key facts 2018 3 citations

Researchers surveyed 531 emerging adults at two large U.S. universities. Each person named an opposite-sex friendship as either platonic or friends-with-benefits and then rated how often they used 36 specific relationship maintenance behaviors. Overall, casual-sex (friends-with-benefits) friendships used the least maintenance, platonic friendships used more than casual-sex but less than…

Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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