Changes in personal relationships: How social contexts affect the emergence and discontinuation of relationships

Social Networks

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-80

  Mollenhorst, Gerald ^a,b   Volker, Beate ^a   Flap, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Meeting opportunities; Network changes; Path dependency; Personal relationships; Social contexts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892899564     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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