Absence makes the heart grow fonder: social compensation when failure to interact risks weakening a relationship

Social networks require active relationship maintenance if they are to be kept at a constant level of emotional closeness. For primates, including humans, failure to interact leads inexorably to a decline in relationship quality, and a consequent loss of the benefits that derive from individual rela...

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Main Authors: Bhattacharya, K, Ghosh, A, Monsivais, D, Dunbar, R, Kaski, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2017