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Status anxiety

The day I stopped believing in the friendship myth

Only four out of ten pals turned up for my stag do, not including the ‘best friend’ who organised it

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

Should we be surprised that friendship isn’t always mutual? That is one of the findings of a team of researchers at Tel Aviv University who’ve just published a paper in an academic journal. They asked several hundred students to identify which members of their peer group they considered to be ‘friends’.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.


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