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. 2020 Aug 26;476(2240):20200446. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0446

Figure 6.

Figure 6.

Change in the mean emotional closeness (on a 1–10 linear scale) to all members of the extended family (kin) and the original set of friends at time 0 after Ego moves to another city and cannot meet up with them so easily. Family relationships are extremely robust to not being contacted, but friendships decline in emotional closeness very quickly if they are not continuously reinforced. Redrawn from [141].