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Jaimie Krems – Tackling Friendship: Appraising, Finding, Getting, and Keeping Partners

May 9, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Friends have recurrently provided social, material, and emotional support—helping humans meet a range of recurrent challenges tributary to fitness. But friendships are not the first type of relationship that comes to mind when thinking about research in social psychology or evolutionary social science. Moreover, when friendships are the focus, work typically foregrounds the friendship dyad. Taking an evolutionary approach suggests a different natural ecology for friendship psychology—one that implies the challenges of friendship are more and more complex than we might typically consider them to be. Perhaps, then, the challenges one must solve to reap the benefits of friendship should be thought of not (only) as two-person games, so to speak, but (also) as n-person games. I illustrate this by exploring several major friendship challenges—identifying good friends, competing for friends, and maintaining friendships. I also propose and test some of the possible means by which our social minds might meet these challenges, toward ultimately maximizing the benefits and minimizing the costs of our sociality.

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Date:
May 9, 2022
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Date:
May 9, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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