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Friendship
Friendship
is a relationship of mutual
affection
between two or more people. Friendship is a stronger form of
interpersonal bond
than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic fields such as
sociology
,
social psychology
,
anthropology
, and
philosophy
. Various academic theories of friendship have been proposed, including
social exchange theory
,
equity theory
,
relational dialectics
, and
attachment styles
. A World Happiness Database study found that people with close friendships are happier.
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