Connection Disconnection: The Negative Consequences of Strong Social Connections
“Being socially connected to close others has great benefits for one’s own physical and mental health,” the authors wrote. “But it also satiates the motivation to connect with others and can increase the perceived distance between us and them.” Rather than feeling animosity toward those outside one’s social circles, the research finds that people may instead think of outsiders as having diminished mental capacities, more like objects or animals than as fully-developed persons.
More support for Granovetter’s work on the importance of weak ties over strong.
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