@article{ref1,
title="Do friends share and communicate more than non-friends?",
journal="International journal of behavioral development",
year="1981",
author="Sharabany, Ruth and Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="45-59",
abstract="Eighty children, kindergarteners and first graders, were assigned to classmate same-sex pairs of friends and non-friends. Each dyad was asked to draw on a single sheet of paper using paints and cuttings. Social communicative behaviors; smiles, looks and verbal activity, and sharing behaviors; exchange of materials and use of space, were observed. Interobserver reliability was 0.80. <br><br>RESULTS showed that friends unexpectedly exhibited less sharing and less communicative behaviors, while they showed more task activity. An explanatory model is suggested to account for social intimacy among friends; task relevant behaviors are maximized, and other social behaviors minimized among friends. Non-friends minimized task relevant behaviors and maximized social communicative behaviors. Implications for the vicissitudes of intimacy among friends are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-0254",
doi="10.1177/016502548100400104",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016502548100400104"
}