Badman et al. (2022) show that the self-reported perception that you cannot easily meet new people (i.e., low relational mobility or “social rigidity”) predicts loneliness beyond # of close friends.

A fun tidbit about marriage...🧵 Some marriage norms restrict relational mobility more than others.

For example, where polygamy is legal, men can have multiple wives but law makes it more difficult for women to have multiple husbands.

What's the frequency, you ask? According to Pew...

pewresearch.org/religion/2019/…

My problem with "marriage makes relationships better" discourse is that not all marriages have the same norms.

I'd rather talk about which marriage behaviors make people happier, why, and when.

I taught a Psychology of Marriage course this semester. Here's a 🧵 My textbook frames marriage as a sociosexual contract whose agreements have a deep history in 1) evolution, and 2) the material conditions under which people attempt to have and raise children.

In short, marriage aids childcare.