Friendships Post-COVID: Resume, Repair, or Replace?

Marvin Roca Jr., public relations associate, Los Angeles.

Arianna Varas, executive assistant, New York City.

Amy, journalist, Southern California.

Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar, PhD, professor of evolutionary psychology, University of Oxford, U.K.

Rebecca Adams, PhD, friendship researcher, professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, professor of psychology and neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

Jessica D. Ayers, PhD candidate, Arizona State University, Tempe.

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PsyArXiv: “The changing landscape of friendship in the pandemic: Males, younger people, and less educated people experience more negative effects of the pandemic on their friendships.” 

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