{"id":223312,"date":"2025-10-12T23:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/neural-similarity-predicts-whether-strangers-become-friends"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:04:21","slug":"neural-similarity-predicts-whether-strangers-become-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/neural-similarity-predicts-whether-strangers-become-friends","title":{"rendered":"Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-similarity-predicts-whether-strangers-become-friends.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shen <i>et al.<\/i> show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223312","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}