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How Long Does It Take to Make Friends (And How Does That Process Work, Anyway)?

The Art of Manliness

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Do friendship expectations differ by gender?

Men and women have different expectations for their friends based on gender/nWomen have higher expectations for emotional intimacy and sharing/nBoth men and women want friends they can hang out with and enjoy themselves/nMen and women value genuineness and trustworthiness in their friends/nMen have higher expectations for friends with certain desirable characteristics

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do friendship expectations differ by gender? Do men and women generally have different expectations for their friends?
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Men and women do have different expectations based on gender. In the case of women, as you might suppose, and guess that women tend to have a higher expectation of kind of emotional inti self, disclosure, kind of talk that's really based upon a high level of sort of emotional talk, and also sharing. Men and women both share two similar expectations for different categories. They both want their friends to be summoned whom they can hang out with and share a laugh and enjoy themselves. The other quality that men and women are quite similar on is this idea of kind of genuineness, like, this person really likes me for who i m. And men and women are quite similar on their expectations that their friends should be trustworthy and genuine in that regard, although women do tend to have slightly higher expectations for that than do men. But the last category where men actually have higher expectations than do women is this category that's kind of curious. It has all the different characteristics of what we might want in a friend that's not about the relationship. So for example, this category included s who were intelligent and athletic and successful and had good business connections and were attractive, and were people who had no access to high paying jobs. And the idea was that men, more so than women, and even young boys and young men, all evaluated friends who had those characteristics as being more valuable friends than did women.

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