It seems likely to me that people invest more in friends when things are going poorly because that’s when friends are more valuable. When you’re in a desert, you probably realize on some level that foraging is a bad strategy and you are a hairless primate dependent on the other hairless primates around you. But I don’t know a way to test that explanation.
It seems likely to me that people invest more in friends when things are going poorly because that’s when friends are more valuable. When you’re in a desert, you probably realize on some level that foraging is a bad strategy and you are a hairless primate dependent on the other hairless primates around you. But I don’t know a way to test that explanation.