• DOI:10.1037/a0020961
Corpus ID: 6335920

Do you two know each other? Transitivity, homophily, and the need for (network) closure.

@article{Flynn2010DoYT,
  title={Do you two know each other? Transitivity, homophily, and the need for (network) closure.},
  author={Francis J. Flynn and Ray Reagans and Lucia Guillory},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2010},
  volume={99 5},
  pages={
          855-69
        }
}

Francis J. Flynn, Ray Reagans, Lucia Guillory

Published 2010

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of personality and social psychology

The authors investigate whether need for closure affects how people seek order in judging social relations. In Study 1, the authors find that people who have a high need for closure (NFC) were more likely to assume their social contacts were connected to each other (i.e., transitivity) when this was not the case. In Studies 2 and 3, the authors examine another form of order in network relations--racial homophily--and find that high-NFC participants were more inclined to believe that 2… CONTINUE READING

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