Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends are Black (2012)

“ Some of my best friends are ... ” : Interracial Friendships , Class , and Segregation in America

Ties among dissimilar persons, when they act as social bridges, play a vital role in diverse societies, expanding identities, opening insular communities of interest, containing inter-group conflicts, and reducing inequalities. Using a phone survey of 29 communities matched with census data, this study analyzes correlates of interracial friendships for the four major racial/ethnic groups in the...

Diamonds are a Philosopher's Best Friends

The knowability paradox is an instance of a remarkable reasoning pattern (actually, a pair of such patterns), in the course of which an occurrence of the possibility operator, the diamond, disappears. In the present paper, it is pointed out how the unwanted disappearance of the diamond may be escaped. The emphasis is not laid on a discussion of the contentious premise of the knowability paradox...

I and My Friends are Good People: The Perception of Incivility by Self, Friends and Strangers

Three studies were conducted to assess self-serving biases in participants' beliefs about incivility, its antecedents and consequences as well as restitution behaviors and forgiveness as a function of whether a behavior was performed by themselves, strangers or friends. Participants who imagined themselves in the active role not only described their own behavior as more excusable, congruent wit...

2 00 3 Small World Graphs by the iterated “ My Friends are Your Friends ” Principle

We study graphs obtained by successive creation and destruction of edges into small neighborhoods of the vertices. Starting with a circle graph of large diameter we obtain small world graphs with logarithmic diameter, high clustering coefficients and a fat tail distribution for the degree. Only local edge formation processes are involved and no preferential attachment was used. Furthermore we f...

To my family and friends