Psychological Science Report: Evaluating Friendship Dynamics Research

This report provides a critical evaluation and self-reflection on a research article concerning the dynamics of friendship, specifically focusing on the concept of friendships formed by chance. It begins with an introduction that outlines the reasons for conducting such research, driven by the observation that many friendships arise seemingly randomly. The analysis and discussion section delves into the author's findings, highlighting the influence of proximity and group assignments on initial attraction. It also addresses unanswered questions regarding the depth of friendship intensity and alternative factors influencing friendship formation. The report then reflects on the surprising aspect of quantifying intangible psychological phenomena and suggests further study on initial attraction development. The personal reflection section emphasizes how the arguments and findings have clarified the understanding of friendship, with the intention of applying these psychological measures in personal life. The report concludes with a list of references, citing relevant books and journal articles. Desklib offers a variety of similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

A critical evaluation
and self-reflection on a
research article

Table of Contents
Section 1 – Introduction and method...............................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................2
Reasons for conducting this research..........................................................................................2
Section 2 Analysis and discussion...................................................................................................2
Findings of the Author.................................................................................................................2
The questions which are unanswered from the research.............................................................3
Section 3 – Impact...........................................................................................................................3
Section 4 - Personal reflections.......................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journal........................................................................................................................5

Section 1 – Introduction and method
INTRODUCTION
A person has increased their curiosity to conduct the research in the case when they Queen like
to increase their knowledge in that part of the topic (Schratz, 2020). This report has provide a
description about the research which has been conducted by various authors on fore article that is
friendship by chance. This report contains the reasons for which other has decided to conduct
this research and also analyze and discuss about the findings of the author and the way these
findings make sense for the readers. Later, this report has some interesting facts that has
impacted during reading this article and helps to provide a follow-up for the study. The personal
reflection part of the research contains my own point of view regarding the research article and
its applicability in my own life.
Reasons for conducting this research
The author has realized that there are so many people all over the world made with each
other and then share a great bond after a short period of time. There are many people who made
by chance but became good friends who can do anything for each other. Then the curiosity in the
mind of author about how two and more people became friends by chance. In order to answer
their questions for this they has decided to conduct a research on the psychological behavior of
people and their mindset regarding attraction and friendship. The author conducted a great
research in which they even compute these intangible feelings in mathematical formulas and
provide aggregate measures of intensity in attraction and friendship. Stephen Nestler is was the
person who has inspired the researcher to discuss and provide effective outcomes for the
research.
Section 2 Analysis and discussion
Findings of the Author
The findings of the research helps to analyze that proximity and group assignment has a
great influence on the starting part of a traction and provide a great rating in the initial attraction
ratings (Ebil, Salleh, and Shahrill, 2020). With the help of multi-level analysis it has been
examined that this proximity and group assignment have their influence on relational attraction
and the people who spend more time together are getting more close to each other. The different

levels of the computation helps to analyze in statics format about the attraction scores at the
initial level in the group assignments and proximity. In order to answer the next question that is
either the pure chance has also its influence on the formation of friendship or not the researcher
has conducted another analysis in which results includes that there is no possible relations
physical relationship among the people and provide a great rating to the intensity of the
friendship in this case of group assignment and proximity. After analyzing the results it can be
said that this computation make a great sense and helps the author to find appropriate answer for
their research. The research article helps to conclude that the people who are working or studying
in a same group have a great chances for the development of their friendship (Eva, Dana, and
Jana, 2020). It has also been concluded that it is not because people became friend that they
found someone like them but the friendship has its dependence simply a right random number
and this becoming of friends is by chance.
The questions which are unanswered from the research
Although great research has been conducted for the purpose of finding that friendships
happen by chance and people became friends by chance. But the reasons for becoming friends
are not fully convincible that only e-grass group assignments and proximity influence initial
attraction in people. There are many cases in which people became friends with the help of
informal meetings and in some cases they became friends incidentally (Kressler, 2020).
Although the topic of the research article make a sense that people became friends by chance but
they became friends with the help of group assignments and proximity is not convincible at all.
There are many questions which are unanswered after this research that how the people who do
not became friends in the group assignments does not applied the attraction rating and friendship
rating. The level of intensity in the friendship is also not answered properly in this research with
the help of the computation made by author.
Section 3 – Impact
The most surprising and interesting part of the reading this article is the calculation of an
intangible thing which is surprisingly awesome. The author is able to calculate a psychological
thing with the help of several formulas is the part which makes the reading this article
interesting. In order to provide an interesting and good follow up for this study it has been
analyzed that how ow initial attraction rating can be developed and the reasons for the intensity

in friendship among people which has been provided by the author in the research article (Slade,
Martin, and Watson, 2020).
Section 4 - Personal reflections
The arguments and findings that are provided in the article helps me in many ways to
understand the level of friendship and the concept of friendship more clearly. I have analyzed
that psychological measures can be measured with the help of several formulas that are provided
by famous psychologist. This psychologist will help to provide sensible arguments and findings
on the influence of proximity and group assessments on the attraction rating and friendship
intensity. I have launched to compute this attraction rating and friendship intensity in my life
which will provide a great sense to my own life. This research article will help me to have a good
knowledge and abilities about the psychological feelings related to the friendship among people
which is very essential for my personal life.

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Ebil, S.H., Salleh, S.M. & Shahrill, M., (2020). The use of E-portfolio for self-reflection to
promote learning: A case of TVET students. Education and Information
Technologies, 25(6), pp.5797-5814.
Eva, P., Dana, K. & Jana, B., (2020). Career growth of teacher of pre-primary education through
self-reflection in qualification thesis. Science for Education Today, 10(1).
Kressler, B., (2020). Critical self-reflection as disruption: A Black feminist self-study. Journal of
Culture and Values in Education, 3(1), pp.21-38.
Schratz, M., (2020). From cooperative action to collective self-reflection: A sociodynamic
approach to educational research. In Qualitative voices in educational research (pp. 56-
70). Routledge.
Slade, D., Martin, A. & Watson, G., (2020). Practitioner auto-ethnography: self-reflection for
discovery and deeper understanding. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical
Education, 11(3), pp.252-264.