When we erase community and friendships from the dating experience, dating becomes strategic in the most unpleasant of ways, ...

Despite how natural friendship can feel, people rarely stop to analyze it. How do you know when someone will make a good friend? When is it time to move on from a friendship? Oftentimes, people rely ...

Financial disparities in friendships can create conflict where it shouldn’t exist. Here’s how two friends navigated a growing wealth gap. By Kristin Wong Adult friendships aren’t easy to maintain.

Choosing friends may involve more than clicking with others who share our interests or outlooks. According to new research, people may select friends based on traits that made them valuable survival ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, ...

We often feel most loved by our friends when they show up for us in times of need — and most betrayed by them when they don't. As a psychologist and expert in human connection, I know that the hard ...

It’s a common thing to hear someone say they are their own worst enemy. It’s especially common for therapists to hear. Many people come to therapy to work on their relationship with themselves. This ...

Our research is consistent with this intuition about the shortcomings of social exchange theory. When we surveyed people about what they want in a friend, they didn't place a high value on having a ...

I’m at a stage of life when friends fall ill as a matter of course. That didn’t used to happen. People I knew ended up in the hospital, yes, certainly during the AIDS epidemic, which called upon ...