People prefer positive relationships to ensure stable social networks
Washington, July 20 (ANI): Proving an 80-year-old psychological theory called Structural Balance Theory, researchers have found that individuals tend to avoid stress-causing relationships and prefer positive relationships in a society, resulting in more stable social networks.
Carried out at Imperial College London, the Medical University of Vienna and the Santa Fe Institute, the researchers examined relationships between 300,000 players in an online game called Pardus.
In this open-ended game, players act as spacecraft exploring a virtual universe, where they can make friends and enemies, and communicate, trade and fight with one another.
Scientists currently study data from people”s electronic interactions, such as emails, mobile phones and online retail behaviour, to improve our understanding of human societies.
Structural Balance Theory suggests some networks of relationships are more stable than others in a society.
Specifically, the theory deals with positive and negative links between three individuals, where ”the friend of my enemy is my enemy” is more stable (and therefore more common) than ”the friend of my friend is my enemy”.
In today”s study, information about interactions between players in the game is more detailed than that from other electronic sources, because it includes data on the types of relationship and whether the interactions are positive or negative.
This has enabled the authors of the study to show that positive relationships form stable networks in society, proving Structural Balance Theory for the first time.
"I find it fascinating to understand how we all interact with one another to form complex social networks. I think it is astounding that I”m this tiny point in such an enormous network of people. Our new study reveals in more detail than ever before the key ingredients that make these networks stable,” said Dr Renaud Lambiotte, one of the authors of the study.
The authors found that in positive relationships, players are more likely to reciprocate actions and sentiments than in negative ones.
The study is published in PNAS. (ANI)
Bei mir:
Der Freund meines Freundes, der mein Feind war, wird mein Freund.
Feinde mache ich zu Freunden, indem ich sie auf meine Seite hole, mit der grössten Waffe der Welt: der Liebe (wohl nicht gemeint Diebe, Vergewaltiger, Mörder ,diese werden nie meine Freunde).
Die meisten Leute sind unwissend, sehen nur in eine Richtung, anstatt wie in einem Kreis rundherum die Welt zu erkennen. Man siehe die Lebensweise der Bonobos, die sich bevor sie sich bekämpfen mögen, eher lieb haben und ihren Stress somit abbauen. Würden sich die Menschen die Lebensauffassung der Bonobos aneignen, wäre dies viel entspannter im Umgang mit der globalen Welt.
In my case:
The friend of my friend who was my enemy is my friend.
I make enemies to friends, setting it at my side hole, with the greatest weapon in the world of love (probably not mean thieves, rapists, murderers, they are never my friends).
Most people are ignorant, only see in one direction, rather than recognizing, as in a circle around the world. You see the life of the bonobo, which is like before they fight each other, more love, and thus reduce their stress. If people acquire the life view of the bonobos, would be much more relaxed in dealing with the global world.