Mapping friendship
The foundations and origins of social network cognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21651136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Jensen (0000-0002-1712-9682, University of California, Los Angeles), Heather L Jensen, Carolyn Parkinson (0000-0001-7128-3480, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 106879 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evolution and Human Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1090-5138 • E-ISSN: 1879-0607 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106879 |
| OpenAlex | W7155497894 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 121 |
Cognition · Cognitive map · Social cognition · Social cognitive theory · Socio-cognitive · Action Observation and Synchronization · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Chimps of a feather sit together
Is friendship akin to kinship?
The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals.
The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship
Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network
Empathy
Sex differences in the ability to recognise non-verbal displays of emotion
The Neurodevelopment of Empathy in Humans
Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others
The Development of Companionship and Intimacy
An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups
The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates
The Anatomy of Friendship
Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons
The Evolutionary Origins of Friendship
Sometimes we want vicious friends
Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship
Similarity Among Friends Serves as a Social Prior
Even his friend said he's bad
The Face of Social Networks
Positive and negative tie perceptual accuracy
Who are the objects of positive and negative gossip at work
What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents
How social exclusion distorts social network perceptions
Perspective-taking and memory capacity predict social network size
Sex and network recall accuracy
From attitudes to social networks
The microstructures of network recall
The social brain hypothesis – thirty years on
Do young children preferentially trust gossip or firsthand observation in choosing a collaborative partner
The unstable social networks of students
Predicting that birds of a feather will flock together
Do you two know each other? Transitivity, homophily, and the need for (network) closure
Space and Time in the Child's Mind
The Social Brain
Knowledge of information cascades through social networks facilitates strategic gossip
Spontaneous neural encoding of social network position
Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends
Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages
Social network changes and life events across the life span
Automatic imitation
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Birds of a Feather
Structural Holes and Good Ideas
Do you like me as much as I like you? Friendship reciprocity and its effects on school outcomes among adolescents
Keeping to the code
Hominoid dispersal patterns and human evolution
Primate reciprocity and its cognitive requirements
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |