Similarity-attraction effects in friendship formation: Honest platoon-mates prefer each other but dishonest do not

Ilmarinen, Ville–Juhani; Lönnqvist, Jan–Erik; Paunonen, Sampo V.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.040

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“…However, other studies on personality and friendship have failed to find such results (e.g. Ilmarinen, Lönnqvist, & Paunonen, ; van Zalk & Denissen, ). The disparate results of these previous studies could be explained by the number of potential friendships within the relevant social environment, a possibility not examined in these studies.…”

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Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

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Even though homophily (love of the same) is often thought of as a standard feature of friendships, the empirical evidence for attraction based on personality trait similarity is mixed at best. One reason for the inconsistent findings across studies could be variation in the large‐scale social environment in which the studies have been conducted. We investigated whether diversity in the everyday social ecologies of 7‐ to 8‐year‐old children (N = 549) moderates whether friendships are formed on the basis of similar personality traits and similar levels of Cognitive ability. Moderated polynomial regression and response surface analyses showed that classroom size moderated homophily based on Openness to Experience: children similar in Openness were more likely to form friendship ties, but only in larger classrooms. Moreover, we found homophily for Cognitive ability, especially among girls. The results for Openness and Cognitive ability were independent of each other. We discuss the social relevance of trait Openness and the notion that capacity to reciprocate underlies homophily based on Cognitive ability. Copyright © 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology

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Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

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“…First, the commonly used similarity measures of difference scores and profile correlations are spurious (Edwards, 2002). Second, the possible non-uniformity of spousal similarity, recently Spousal Similarity and Satisfaction 4 observed in the context of friendship formation (Ilmarinen, Lönnqvist, & Paunonen, 2016), has not been previously investigated.…”

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Relationship satisfaction and similarity of personality traits, personal values, and attitudes

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Ilmarinen

Verkasalo

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Personality and Individual Differences

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Spousal similarity and its consequences are widely studied, but methodologically challenging topics. We employed Response Surface Analysis to examine similarity along political attitudes, personal values, and personality traits. Opposite-sex couples (624 individuals) expecting a child were recruited. Spouses were highly similar regarding their political attitudes and moderately similar regarding trait Openness and the personal values Universalism and Tradition. Similarity for other traits and values was weak (e.g. Conscientiousness, Power values) or non-existent (e.g. Neuroticism, Benevolence values). Similarity in conservative vs. liberal attitudes was non-linear: a conservative-conservative union was most common. Women's relationship satisfaction was related to similarity in left-right and liberal-conservative political attitudes, and both partners' satisfaction was related to similarity in Self-Direction values. Similarity in personality traits was unrelated to relationship satisfaction.

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“…Findings regarding reputational sociometric status have been less consistent, with some studies reporting a positive correlation (Hubers et al, 2016;Wolters et al, 2014) and others a null finding (Massey et al, 2015;van der Linden et al, 2010). Among older youth samples, the findings are more inconsistent for emotional sociometric status (Ilmarinen et al, 2016;Wortman & Wood, 2011) and null for reputational status (Anderson et al, 2001;Lawless DesJardins et al, 2015).…”

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Peer Sociometric Status and Personality Development from Middle Childhood to Preadolescence

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Vainikainen²,

Verkasalo³

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Sociometric status, the regard that other group members confer to an individual, is one of the most ubiquitous and behaviourally relevant attributes assigned to the person by the social environment. Despite this, its contribution to personality development has received little attention. The present three-wave longitudinal study, spanning the age range 7-13 years (n = 1222), sought to fill this gap by examining the transactional pathways between peer sociometric status (measured by peer nominations) and Five-Factor personality traits (measured by self-ratings and parent and teacher ratings). Sociometric status prospectively predicted the development of extraversion. By contrast, agreeableness and neuroticism prospectively predicted the development of sociometric status. Furthermore, individual-level stability in extraversion was associated with individual-level stability in sociometric status. The results were robust across different sources of personality ratings. We argue that peer sociometric status in the school classroom is the type of environmental effect that has potential to explain personality development. Because of its stability, broadness, and possible impact across a variety of personality processes, sociometric status can both repetitiously and simultaneously influence the network of multiple inter-correlated micro-level personality processes, potentially leading to a new network equilibrium that manifests in changes at the level of the broad personality trait.

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Similarity-attraction effects in friendship formation: Honest platoon-mates prefer each other but dishonest do not

Cited by 34 publications

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Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

Relationship satisfaction and similarity of personality traits, personal values, and attitudes

Peer Sociometric Status and Personality Development from Middle Childhood to Preadolescence

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