06/17/2016
Half of Your Friends Probably Don’t Think of You As a Friend.
"“These findings suggest a profound inability of people to perceive friendship reciprocity, perhaps because the possibility of non-reciprocal friendship challenges one’s self-image,” the study authors wrote. Fair enough. No one likes to think of themselves as the unwanted hanger-on, chasing a relationship that doesn’t really exist and maybe never will; this blind spot, then, may be a form of emotional self-defense. Luckily, though, it’s almost the weekend, so you’ll have plenty of time to give things a good hard look and question everything you thought you knew."
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/half-of-your-friends-probably-dont-think-of-you-as-a-friend.html
A sad little study on “reciprocal friendships.” Or, um, lack thereof.