Chapter 12

Question 1

friendship

Answer 1

voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking

Question 2

communal friendships

Answer 2

friendships that focus on sharing time and activities together

Question 3

agentic friendships

Answer 3

friendships in which the parties focus primarily on helping each other achieve practical goals

Question 4

identity support

Answer 4

behaving in ways that convey understanding, acceptance, and support for a friend’s valued social identities

Question 5

valued social identities

Answer 5

aspects of your public self that you deem the most important in defining who you are

Question 6

cross category friendships

Answer 6

friendships that cross demographic lines

three most common: cross-sex, cross-orientation, interethnic

Question 7

professional peers

Answer 7

people holding positions of organizational status and power similar to our own

Question 8

friendship rules

Answer 8

general principles that prescribe appropriate communication and behavior within friendship relationships

Question 9

friends with benefits

Answer 9

the participants engage in sexual activity, but not with the purpose of transforming the relationship into a romantic attachment