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Friendship constitutes an important facet of human behavior, and the current research investigated the reasons that motivate people to make friends. First, a combination of qualitative research methods were used to identify 41 perceived reasons why people make friends. Using a sample of 1,316 Greek-speaking participants, these reasons were classified into five broad factors. Participants indicated that the most important reasons for making friends were to receive social input, support, and because of someone else's good qualities. Sex differences and age effects were found in most factors. Finally, the five factors were classified into two broader domains, the first reflecting motivation to make a true friendship and the second to gain opportunistic benefits. ## K E Y W O R D S evolution of friendship, friendship, making friends, reasons for making friends ## 1 | INTRODUCTION Friendship can be defined as a long-term relationship of mutual affection and support (Fehr, 1996;Hruschka, 2010). Making friends constitutes an important facet of human behavior and is found across all contemporary and historical human societies (Demir, 2015;Desai & Killick, 2010;Terrell, 2014). This human un

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Author

Apostolou, Menelaos; Keramari, Despoina; Kagialis, Antonios; Sullman, Mark

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1350-4126)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)