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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013

Structural effect of size on interracial friendship.

Siwei Cheng, Yu Xie

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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2 authors.

Siwei ChengInstitute for Social Research, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA.
Yu Xie

Funding

Population Studies Center Infrastructure GrantR24HD041028 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SMOCK, PAMELA J. · 2001 to 2016
$13.2M
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Social and Behavioral SciencesR21NR010856 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI XIE, YU · 2007 to 2010
$1.0M
NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD041028NINR NIH HHS R21 NR010856
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social contexts exert structural effects on individuals' social relationships, including interracial friendships. In this study, we posit that, net of group composition, total context size has a distinct effect on interracial friendship. Under the assumptions of (i) maximization of preference in choosing a friend, (ii) multidimensionality of preference, and (iii) preference for same-race friends, we conducted analyses using microsimulation that yielded three main findings. First, increased context size decreases the likelihood of forming an interracial friendship. Second, the size effect increases with the number of preference dimensions. Third, the size effect is diluted by noise, i.e., the random component affecting friendship formation. Analysis of actual friendship data among 4,745 American high school students yielded results consistent with the main conclusion that increased context size promotes racial segregation and discourages interracial friendship.

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Interpersonal RelationsAdolescentChoice BehaviorComputer SimulationFemaleFriendsHumansMaleModels, TheoreticalRacial Groups

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PMID23589848
PMCPMC3645520

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