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To my family and friends

“ Some of my best friends are ... ” : Interracial Friendships , Class , and Segregation in America

Ties among dissimilar persons, when they act as social bridges, play a vital role in diverse societies, expanding identities, opening insular communities of interest, containing inter-group conflicts, and reducing inequalities. Using a phone survey of 29 communities matched with census data, this study analyzes correlates of interracial friendships for the four major racial/ethnic groups in the...

With a lot of help from my friends.

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant and native men in the UK. We first explore the determinants of using social networks as a channel for looking for jobs. Our focus does not only lie on the main search method of job search, rather we also use information on whether social networks are used as a method of search amo...

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I and My Friends are Good People: The Perception of Incivility by Self, Friends and Strangers

Three studies were conducted to assess self-serving biases in participants' beliefs about incivility, its antecedents and consequences as well as restitution behaviors and forgiveness as a function of whether a behavior was performed by themselves, strangers or friends. Participants who imagined themselves in the active role not only described their own behavior as more excusable, congruent wit...