The State of American Friendship

The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss

The May 2021 American Perspectives Survey finds that Americans report having fewer close friendships than they once did, talking to their friends less often, ...

What does friendship look like in America? - Pew Research Center

Americans place a lot of importance on friendship. In fact, 61% of U.S. adults say having close friends is extremely or very important for ...

The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss

The May 2021 American Perspectives Survey finds that Americans report having fewer close friendships than they once did, talking to their ...

Are Americans suffering a friendship crisis? | News & Media Relations

A new two-year study led by Colorado State University Communication Studies Assistant Professor Natalie Pennington and the American Friendship Project finds we ...

How many friends do Americans have? A survey crunched ... - NPR

According to Pew, 61% of adults in the U.S. say that having close friends is essential to living a fulfilling life — that's more than those who ...

Welcome to the Friendship Issue of the Highlight | Vox

Last year, the American Perspectives Survey reported that 12 percent of Americans now say they have no close friendships, compared with 3 ...

The American Friendship Project: A report on the status and health ...

The key finding from this investigation is, compared to the discouraging results of other recent surveys, Americans reported having more friends and fewer were ...

Friendships Are Not in Decline Among Americans: Study

But friendships are not in decline in the United States, a new study has found. An American adult has an average of four to five friends ...

The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss

The May 2021 Amer- ican Perspectives Survey finds that Americans report having fewer close friendships than they once did, talking to their ...

The friendship crisis - Inside Higher Ed

The state and fate of friendship in contemporary American society. In strictly material terms, Americans are better off than ever.

Reimagining Friendships in Everyday Life

The results were not encouraging. The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss documented a dramatic decline in the size of ...

Study Finds Americans Have More Friends Than Previously Thought

The survey found that an average American adult has four to five friends, and only 2% reported being friendless.

Friendships in America may be in less peril than previously thought

The authors add: "Americans long for greater closeness with friends; although over 75% were satisfied with ...

Vox's August Highlight Issue Explores the State of Modern American ...

Last year, the American Perspectives Survey reported that 12 percent of Americans now say they have no close friendships, compared with three ...

Number of close friends had by U.S. adults 2021 - Statista

Conversely, the percentage of Americans who said they had 10 or more close friends decreased from 33 percent in 1990 to 13 percent in 2021. The ...

The American Friendship Project: A report on the status and health ...

Friendship is critical for individuals' well-being, but recent efforts to characterize Americans' friendship have suggested that these ...

The state of American friendship: Change, challenges, and loss

Many Americans do not have a large number of close friends. Close to half (49 percent) of Americans report having three or fewer.

American Friendship - ISO | MIT

Americans are typically polite but they also are very private people. They want to be perceived as nice, friendly, and helpful.

The science of why friendships keep us healthy

How friendship changes the body and brain ... Psychological research from around the world shows that having social connections is one of the most ...

Why Americans are spending less time with friends - WBUR

Now, according to the Census Bureau's 2021 American Time Use Survey, Americans spend only two hours and 45 minutes a week with their friends. A ...