Weak Ties: Overlooked Social Connections
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Weak Ties, Social PsychologyAbstract
This paper tackles the importance of weak ties and aquaintances for social connection, and supplies logical reasons for why they tend to be so overlooked despite the fact that they have a very significant effect on the average person's happiness.
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