This research highlights how weak ties and acquaintances impact happiness, suggesting they are undervalued social connections.
This paper tackles the importance of weak ties and aquaintances for social connection, and supplies logical reasons for why they tend to be so overlooked despite the fact that they have a very significant effect on the average person's happiness.
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