On Being `Just Friends': The Frequency and Impact of Sexual Activity in Crosssex Friendships

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The Presence of Cell Phones in Romantic Partner Face-to-Face Interactions: An Expectancy Violation Theory Approach (2015, background): “Uncertainty-increasing violations also produce more negative relational change than uncertainty-decreasing violations (Afifi & Faulkner, 2000).”
Relational Maintenance in Cross‐Sex Friendships Characterized by Different Types of Romantic Intent: An Exploratory Study (2005, background): “…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 once.”
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, result): “Other than the work of Mongeau et al., the existing research that most pertains to FWBRs is research by Afifi and Faulkner (2000), who explored the occurrence of sex within a cross-sex friendship (but not one defined as an FWBR).”