TY - GEN
T1 - The Friendship Field - an Agent-Based Model on Dyadic Friendship Formation Driven by Social Battery
AU - van de Kieft, Chrisja Naomi
AU - Timmer, Eva Margretha
PY - 2023/9/30
Y1 - 2023/9/30
N2 - Humans have an intrinsic need for friendship, especially in adolescence when entering a new social environment where they do not know anybody. The question as to how friendships form is frequently asked. In research, three important factors have been identified in the formation of friendship: extraversion, resemblance and social status. To our best knowledge, a missing aspect in current research on friendship formation is the concept of “social battery”. The social battery comprehends an individuals’ energy level to engage in social contact. When the social battery is exhausted, it can prevent an individual from social contact, and consequently from making new friends. The recharging and exhaustion of the social battery heavily depends on the person’s extraversion level. In this paper, we develop an agent-based model “the Friendship Field” that simulates real-life dyadic friendship formation where the individuals’ interactions are motivated by their social battery. With this model, we investigate emergent patterns regarding extraversion, resemblance and status. The model reproduces a pattern of the mere-exposure-effect, an existing theory on friendship formation. Moreover, it proposes a new factor for friendship formation in social sciences: the social battery.
AB - Humans have an intrinsic need for friendship, especially in adolescence when entering a new social environment where they do not know anybody. The question as to how friendships form is frequently asked. In research, three important factors have been identified in the formation of friendship: extraversion, resemblance and social status. To our best knowledge, a missing aspect in current research on friendship formation is the concept of “social battery”. The social battery comprehends an individuals’ energy level to engage in social contact. When the social battery is exhausted, it can prevent an individual from social contact, and consequently from making new friends. The recharging and exhaustion of the social battery heavily depends on the person’s extraversion level. In this paper, we develop an agent-based model “the Friendship Field” that simulates real-life dyadic friendship formation where the individuals’ interactions are motivated by their social battery. With this model, we investigate emergent patterns regarding extraversion, resemblance and status. The model reproduces a pattern of the mere-exposure-effect, an existing theory on friendship formation. Moreover, it proposes a new factor for friendship formation in social sciences: the social battery.
KW - Agent-based model (ABM)
KW - Extraversion
KW - Friendship
KW - Resemblance
KW - Social battery
KW - Status
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-34920-1_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-34920-1_24
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85174523044
SN - 9783031349195
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Complexity
SP - 299
EP - 311
BT - Advances in Social Simulation - Proceedings of the 17th Social Simulation Conference, European Social Simulation Association
A2 - Squazzoni, Flaminio
PB - Springer
T2 - 17th annual conference of European Social Simulation Association, ESSA 2022
Y2 - 12 September 2022 through 16 September 2022
ER -