{"id":212207,"date":"2025-04-23T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantifying-social-avoidance-game-based-choices-reflect-real-world-relationship-patterns-and-network-size"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:08:09","slug":"quantifying-social-avoidance-game-based-choices-reflect-real-world-relationship-patterns-and-network-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantifying-social-avoidance-game-based-choices-reflect-real-world-relationship-patterns-and-network-size","title":{"rendered":"Quantifying social avoidance: Game-based choices reflect real-world relationship patterns and network size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantifying-social-avoidance-game-based-choices-reflect-real-world-relationship-patterns-and-network-size2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The relationships between different people can change over time, as the result of their life choices, internal or external experiences and various other factors. Some people develop a greater tendency to avoid others in their lives, including friends, colleagues, family members and acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently set out to test the hypothesis that social avoidance could be quantified as people\u2019s navigation in an abstract social space. Their paper, published in <i>Communications Psychology<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44271-025-00215-8\" target=\"_blank\">introduces a new framework<\/a> for studying and probing people\u2019s social avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work grew out of the idea that the way that people often talk about navigating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/social+relationships\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">social relationships <\/a>\u2014\u2019climbing the ladder\u2019 at work, or \u2018growing distant\u2019 from a friend\u2014might be more than a metaphor,\u201d Matthew Schafer, first author of the paper, told Phys.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationships between different people can change over time, as the result of their life choices, internal or external experiences and various other factors. Some people develop a greater tendency to avoid others in their lives, including friends, colleagues, family members and acquaintances. Researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently set out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}