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The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends
A fundamental question of any new relationship is, will it last? Transient relationships, recently defined by the authors, are an ideal type of social tie to explore this question: these relationships are characterized by distinguishable starting and ending temporal points, linking the question of t...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10598443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230834 |
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author | Vergara Hidd, Valentín Zhang, Mailun Centellegher, Simone Roberts, Sam G. B. Lepri, Bruno López, Eduardo |
author_facet | Vergara Hidd, Valentín Zhang, Mailun Centellegher, Simone Roberts, Sam G. B. Lepri, Bruno López, Eduardo |
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description | A fundamental question of any new relationship is, will it last? Transient relationships, recently defined by the authors, are an ideal type of social tie to explore this question: these relationships are characterized by distinguishable starting and ending temporal points, linking the question of tie longevity to relationship finite lifetime. In this study, we use mobile phone data sets from the UK and Italy to analyse the weekly allocation of time invested in maintaining transient relationships. We find that more relationships are created during weekdays, with a greater proportion of them receiving more contact during these days of the week in the long term. The smaller group of relationships that receive more phone calls during the weekend tend to remain active for more time. We uncover a sorting process by which some ties are moved from weekdays to weekends and vice versa, mostly in the first half of the relationship. This process also carries more information about the ultimate lifetime of a tie than the part of the week when the relationship started, which suggests an early evaluation period that leads to a decision on how to allocate time to different types of transient ties. |
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spelling | pubmed-105984432023-10-26 The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends Vergara Hidd, Valentín Zhang, Mailun Centellegher, Simone Roberts, Sam G. B. Lepri, Bruno López, Eduardo R Soc Open Sci Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence A fundamental question of any new relationship is, will it last? Transient relationships, recently defined by the authors, are an ideal type of social tie to explore this question: these relationships are characterized by distinguishable starting and ending temporal points, linking the question of tie longevity to relationship finite lifetime. In this study, we use mobile phone data sets from the UK and Italy to analyse the weekly allocation of time invested in maintaining transient relationships. We find that more relationships are created during weekdays, with a greater proportion of them receiving more contact during these days of the week in the long term. The smaller group of relationships that receive more phone calls during the weekend tend to remain active for more time. We uncover a sorting process by which some ties are moved from weekdays to weekends and vice versa, mostly in the first half of the relationship. This process also carries more information about the ultimate lifetime of a tie than the part of the week when the relationship started, which suggests an early evaluation period that leads to a decision on how to allocate time to different types of transient ties. The Royal Society 2023-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10598443/ /pubmed/37885985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230834 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Vergara Hidd, Valentín Zhang, Mailun Centellegher, Simone Roberts, Sam G. B. Lepri, Bruno López, Eduardo The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
title | The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
title_full | The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
title_fullStr | The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
title_full_unstemmed | The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
title_short | The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
title_sort | rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends |
topic | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10598443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230834 |
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