The Nature of Friendships
What is cross-category friendships?
The people whom you exchange deep personal information and emotional support
What is close friends?
The general principles that prescribe appropriate communication and behavior within friendship relationships
What is friendship rules?
The three examples of challenges in friendships
What is betrayal, geographic separation, and attraction?
The friendships between people from different cultures or countries
What is intercultural friendships?
The distinction between acquaintances and friends
What is self-disclosure?
The behaving ways that convey understanding and acceptance for a friend's identity
What is identity support?
The friends structure their schedules to enjoy hobbies, interests, and leisure activities together
What is sharing activities?
The three examples of betrayal
What is lying, rumors/gossip, and backstabbing?
The friends we have lost touch with and who now exist more as fond recollections in our memories
What is commemorative friends?
The voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking
What is friendship?
The aspects of your public self that you deem important in defining who you are
What is valued social identities?
The second strategy for friendship maintenance
What is self-disclosure?
The best way to preserve a long-distance friendship
What is technology?
The two main maintenance strategies for friends
What is shared activities and self-disclosure?
The friendship that focus primarily on sharing time and activities together
What is communal friendships?
The friends characterized by positive interactions and available emotional support
What is active friends?
The first five rules for friendship
What is show support, seek support, respect privacy, keep confidences, and defend your friends?
The participants engage in sexual activity without the purpose of transforming the relationship into a romantic attachment
What is "friends-with-benefits" (FWB) relationships?
The first three steps in managing betrayal
What is manage anger/grief, avoid seeking revenge, and contact others?
The friendship in which parties focus primarily on helping each other achieve practical goals
What is agentic friendships?
The friends who we feel we could resume contact with but currently see less frequently
What is dormant friends?
The last five rules for friendship
What is avoid public criticism, make your friends happy, manage jealousy, share humor, and maintain equity?
The talking about your experience directly with people who have gone through the same thing
What is emotion-sharing?
The two main factors that shape who your friends are
What is geographically and personal interests?