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Relationships

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Your friends' success hurts more when it involves your own talent.
The self-evaluation maintenance model suggests you feel threatened when a close friend outperforms you in a domain ess…
You like the people you encounter most frequently.
Physical proximity is a stronger predictor of friendship than shared interests.…
You like people just because you see them often.
A 1950 study found that physical proximity is a significant predictor of friendship formation, working in tandem with …