Preference effects on friendship choice: Evidence from an online field experiment
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Preference effects on friendship choice: Evidence from an online field experiment.
Observed friendship choices are constrained by social structures and thus problematic indicators for underlying personal preferences. In this paper, we report on a study demonstrating the causal effects of preference in friendship choice based on an online field experiment. Specifically, we tested two important forces that govern friendship choices: preference for shared group identity (operati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0049-089X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.01.006