Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the
Nobel Prizes; they honor ?achievements that first make people laugh and
then make them think.?
Peace
Citation: Jaimie Arona Krems, Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Laureon Merrie,
Keelah Williams, and Daniel Sznycer, for documenting that we value
friends who are vicious to people we dislike.
If asked, most of us would say we want kind and trustworthy people as friends and don?t care for those who treat us poorly. There?s plenty of research to back that up. But Krems et al. noticed that much of that
prior research looked specifically at person-to-person friendships in isolation, when in fact, we and our friends also interact regularly with plenty of other people. There?s a broader social context to be
considered, in other words, and the authors decided to explore how that context might impact the qualities we look for in friends.
Over 1,000 subjects from the US and India participated in six related studies designed to track people?s preferences for their friends?
behavior in various social circumstances. As expected, the subjects generally preferred friends with positive qualities when assessing how
they wished their friends to behave toward them personally.
Wanting friends that are kind and trustworthy (as opposed to mean or indifferent) also held for neutral strangers, although people wanted
their friends to be more ?prosocial? toward themselves than others, especially if they were deemed best friends. But THOSE DYNAMICS SHIFTED
WHEN IT CAME TO HOW PEOPLE WANTED THEIR FRIENDS TO BEHAVE TOWARDS THEIR ENEMIES. IN THOSE CASES, SOME PEOPLE PREFERRED THEIR FRIENDS TO BE MORE VICIOUS TOWARDS THOSE PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR?BUT NOT TO BEHAVE VICIOUSLY
MORE GENERALLY.
They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by simply observing
this NG for a few days.
Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the
Nobel Prizes; they honor ?achievements that first make people laugh and
then make them think.?
Peace
Citation: Jaimie Arona Krems, Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Laureon Merrie,
Keelah Williams, and Daniel Sznycer, for documenting that we value
friends who are vicious to people we dislike.
If asked, most of us would say we want kind and trustworthy people as friends and don?t care for those who treat us poorly. There?s plenty of research to back that up. But Krems et al. noticed that much of that
prior research looked specifically at person-to-person friendships in isolation, when in fact, we and our friends also interact regularly with plenty of other people. There?s a broader social context to be
considered, in other words, and the authors decided to explore how that context might impact the qualities we look for in friends.
Over 1,000 subjects from the US and India participated in six related studies designed to track people?s preferences for their friends?
behavior in various social circumstances. As expected, the subjects generally preferred friends with positive qualities when assessing how
they wished their friends to behave toward them personally.
Wanting friends that are kind and trustworthy (as opposed to mean or indifferent) also held for neutral strangers, although people wanted
their friends to be more ?prosocial? toward themselves than others, especially if they were deemed best friends. But THOSE DYNAMICS SHIFTED
WHEN IT CAME TO HOW PEOPLE WANTED THEIR FRIENDS TO BEHAVE TOWARDS THEIR ENEMIES. IN THOSE CASES, SOME PEOPLE PREFERRED THEIR FRIENDS TO BE MORE VICIOUS TOWARDS THOSE PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR?BUT NOT TO BEHAVE VICIOUSLY
MORE GENERALLY.
They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by simply observing
this NG for a few days.
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