CAREER: Going Beyond the Dyad: A Network Theory for Understanding the Challenges of Friendship

职业：超越二元：理解友谊挑战的网络理论

• 批准号: 2340942
• 负责人: Jaimie Krems
• 金额: $ 59.88万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2029-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2340942&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Going; Beyond; Dyad; Network

People often take friendship for granted. Having friends is linked to better mental and physical health, longer life, and increased economic mobility. Friendship also combats loneliness, an epidemic that has been described as a defining public health concern of our time. Indeed, about 4 in 10 Americans are lonely, and therefore at risk of living shorter, less fulling lives. This project shines a light on the psychology of friendship by deploying a new theoretical framework. This framework emphasizes that friend pairs, which have been the focus of past work, live in wider social worlds, where each friend can interact with a network of other people. As a result, the challenges of finding, making, and keeping friends are more complex than one might think, and that previous research has found. These challenges might involve both simpler and well-studied two-person components (getting friends to like us) but also lesser-studied multi-person components (getting friends to like us better than they like their other friends). This program of research fills major gaps in our basic understanding of how friendship works by focusing on these vital but understudied social relationships. The project has three aims. One is to identify the various challenges that people must solve to realize friendships. A second is to better describe what these complex challenges look like. These two aims support a third aim of generating new insights into how people solve these friendship challenges. This project examines friendship challenges and their solutions in a series of cross-cultural surveys, laboratory experiments, and via cutting-edge methods such as machine learning and network analysis. A science communication component helps to disseminate scientific findings and train the next generation of psychological scientists to engage with the public. Achieving a better understanding of the social dynamics of friendship informs the development of interventions aimed at improving mental health, physical health, and economic mobility.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人们经常认为友谊是理所当然的。有朋友与更好的身心健康，更长的寿命和增加经济流动有关。友谊还打击了孤独感，这是一种流行病，被描述为我们时代的公共卫生关注。的确，大约有十分之一的美国人孤独，因此生活的危险较短，饱满的生活。该项目通过部署新的理论框架来阐明友谊心理。这个框架强调，曾经是过去工作重点的朋友对生活在更广泛的社交世界中，每个朋友都可以与其他人的网络互动。结果，寻找，结交和保持朋友的挑战比人们想象的要复杂，而先前的研究已经发现。这些挑战可能涉及更简单和研究的两人组成部分（让朋友喜欢我们），也涉及较少研究的多人组成部分（让朋友更喜欢我们比他们喜欢其他朋友更喜欢我们）。这项研究计划填补了我们对友谊如何运作的基本理解的主要空间，这是通过关注这些重要但经过研究的社会关系。该项目有三个目标。一种是确定人们必须解决的各种挑战以实现友谊。第二是更好地描述这些复杂挑战的样子。这两个目的支持第三个目标，即对人们如何解决这些友谊挑战产生新的见解。该项目在一系列跨文化调查，实验室实验以及通过机器学习和网络分析等尖端方法中研究了友谊挑战及其解决方案。科学沟通的组成部分有助于传播科学发现，并培训下一代的心理科学家与公众互动。对友谊的社会动态有了更好的理解，可以为旨在改善心理健康，身体健康和经济流动性的干预措施发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的优点和更广泛的评估而被认为值得支持的影响审查标准。