WHY YOUR FRIENDS HAVE MORE FRIENDS THAN YOU DO
WHY YOUR FRIENDS HAVE MORE FRIENDS THAN YOU DO
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DOI：
10.1086/229693
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发表时间：
1991-05-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
FELD, SL
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作者：
FELD, SL
我们可以合理地假设，人们会把朋友的数量作为判断自己是否拥有足够数量朋友的依据。这篇文章表明，如果个人将自己与朋友进行比较，他们中的大多数人可能会感到相对不足。詹姆斯·科尔曼（1961）的经典研究《青少年社会》中关于友谊的数据被用来解释大多数人的朋友较少的现象。这一现象背后的逻辑是数学探索，表明朋友的朋友的平均数总是大于个人的朋友的平均数。进一步的分析表明，朋友数量少于自己朋友平均数量的个体比例受到社交网络中友谊的确切安排的影响。这种不成比例的朋友与许多朋友的经历与一组抽象相似的“班级规模悖论”有关，其中包括各种各样的现象，如大学生的平均班级规模比实际更大，人们的海滩和公园比平时更拥挤。
It is reasonable to suppose that individuals use the number of friends that their friends have as one basis for determining whether they, themselves, have an adequate number of friends. This article shows that, if individuals compare themselves with their friends, it is likely that most of them will feel relatively inadequate. Data on friendship drawn from James Coleman's (1961) classic study The Adolescent Society are used to illustratite the phenomenon that most people have fewer friends have. The logic underlying the phenomenon is mathematically explored, showing that the mean number of friends of friends is always greater than the mean number of friends of individuals. Further analysis shows that the proportion of individuals who have fewer friends than the mean number of friends their own friends have is affected by the exact arrangement fo friendships in a social network. This disproportionate experiencing of friends with many friends is related to a set of abstractly similar "class size paradoxes" that includes such diverse phenomena as the tendencies for college students to experience the mean class size as larger than it actually is and for people to experience beaches and parks as more crowded than they usually are.