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Social exploration: How and why people seek new connections

2023-04-20

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<p>When you have the option to connect with someone, do you choose to meet up with a new friend or reconnect with an old friend? People often face this tradeoff between choosing a known option and trying an unknown one, known as the explore-exploit tradeoff. How and when an individual chooses to do either depends on individual and situational factors. Though this has been documented in other literature, such as ho...

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Literature Corpus work: 4e889ade-57e6-55f3-aca3-aac3fbe4d8cf
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2wx9t

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