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Male friendship

All in the Mind

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The Seven Pillars of Friendship

Robin Roberts: It takes a huge amount of time to build a friendship up. But alarmingly, you say in your book that it's remarkably easy to lose those friendships if you don't nurture them. There's two aspects to this - what seems to underpin friendships and family relationships is this effect known as homophily. And the more similar you are, the closer in they'll beat you, the stronger the friendship. The less strong friendships where you have fewer pillars in common were more prone to just fade away and drift apart -- particularly among men.

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