Motives to Remain Platonic, Equity, and the Use of Maintenance Strategies in Opposite-Sex Friendships

By Susan J. Messman, Daniel J. Canary, Kimberley S. Hause. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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What's love got to do with it? Exploring the impact of maintenance rules, love attitudes, and network support on friends with benefits relationships (2005, background): “These relationships appear to defy the conceptualization that friendship and sexuality cannot coexist (Werking, 1997) or that sex is added into a friendsbip in order to move it relationally forward ( Messman, Canary, & Hause, 2000 ).”
Flirting with Meaning: An Examination of Miscommunication in Flirting Interactions (2004, background): “Furthermore, the decision not to flirt with a person is significantly predicted by a lack of attraction for the person ( Messman, Canary, & Hause, 2000 ).”
Behavior expectations in cross-sex friendships, same-sex friendships, and romantic relationships (2009, unknown): “…including anticipated expressions of disapproval from their social network, a lack of sexual or romantic attraction that one partner feels toward the other, or because one or both partners are already involved in an alternative romantic relationship (Messman, Canary, & Hause, 2000; Reeder, 2000).”
Equity and uncertainty in relational maintenance (2003, background): “If an individual feels unduly rewarded in the relationship, s/he may respond through avoidance (Messman et al., 2000).”
Relational Maintenance in Cross‐Sex Friendships Characterized by Different Types of Romantic Intent: An Exploratory Study (2005, background): “Although most studies suggest that sexual activity is relatively rare between cross-sex friends (e.g., Fuiman, Yarab, & Sensibaugh, 1997; Messman et al., 2000), Afifi and Faulkner (2000) found that about 50% of the college population they sampled could recall having had sex with a friend at least on”
Equity and Interdependence as Predictors of Relational Maintenance Strategies (2006, background): “Likewise, Messman et al. (2000) found that underbenefitedness, in particular, was negatively associated with the self-reported use of maintenance behaviors in opposite-sex platonic friendships.”