New study shows we are bad judges of friendship

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/afot-nss050516.php

Public Release: 5-May-2016
New study shows we are bad judges of friendship
Tel Aviv University researchers find inability to determine who our real friends are limits our powers of persuasion
American Friends of Tel Aviv University

Most of us think that friendship is a two-way street -- but that's true only half the time, according to research from Tel Aviv University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Their new joint study says only half of your buddies would consider you their own friend. People have a very poor perception of friendship ties, and this limits their ability to influence their "friends," according to the research, published in PLoS One on March 22, 2016.

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