Similarity-attraction effects in friendship formation: Honest platoon-mates prefer each other but dishonest do not

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 92, Issue , 2016, Pages 153-158

  Ilmarinen, Ville Juhani ^a   Lönnqvist, Jan Erik ^a   Paunonen, Sampo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dark personality; Friendship; Homophily; Honesty; Polynomial regression; Response surface analysis; Similarity attraction

Indexed keywords

ARMY; FRIENDSHIP; HONESTY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84952778813     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.040     Document Type: Article

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