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The conclusions really didn’t resonate with me. Not the male or female preferences. As a male in my 30s, I just realized that every single close friend I had t
by brap 5y ago
The conclusions really didn’t resonate with me. Not the male or female preferences.
As a male in my 30s, I just realized that every single close friend I had throughout my life is simply a person who made me laugh, and I made them laugh. A shared sense of humor, that’s literally all it is.
And it’s not like my friendships are/were shallow or anything, I have friends who I will gladly give a kidney to and I’m sure they’ll do the same for me. But I think humor was really the foundation of it all.
- sdze 5y agoAre you a US-American?
- brap 5y agoNo, why? The kidney?
- sdze 5y agoBecause the study was conducted with US-Participants. In my opinion a multi-center study is needed. I believe other parts of the world have different values in friendships. I agree with you. My best friend was poor (not anymore, he is a MD now) and had nothing.
- kingcharles 5y agoOther cultures would have vastly skewed results: for instance, my girlfriend is Qatari, her interaction with males outside her family is very strictly limited, and vice-versa for the males. Segregation between genders is enormous in some cultures.
- pedrosorio 5y agoThis study is about same-sex friendship preferences, so the frequency of interaction with members of the opposite sex in these cultures is not the most relevant. That being said, I agree with the person you are replying to. Differences in friendship preferences by men and women could be highly variable in different cultures, so one shouldn't read too much into a study that looks exclusively at US participants.