论文标题
瞬态关系的稳定性
The Stability of Transient Relationships
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论文摘要
与长期关系相反，尽管这些瞬时关系的时间演变众所周知，尽管这些关系占人们通信网络的很大一部分。先前的文献表明，关系情绪强度衰减的评级逐渐直到关系结束。使用来自三个国家（美国，英国和意大利）的手机数据，我们证明了自我及其瞬态变化之间的通信量不会显示出如此系统的衰减，而是表明缺乏任何主要趋势。这意味着，与类似瞬态变化组的自负量的通信量是稳定的。我们表明，自我网络中寿命较长的变化会接到更多的呼叫，并且这种关系的生命周期可以在首次接触的前几周内从呼叫量中预测。这在所有三个国家中都可以观察到，其中包括不同生活阶段的自我样本。早期呼叫量与终生之间的关系与个人最初与新的变更互动以评估其在同质性方面的潜力的建议是一致的。
In contrast to long-term relationships, far less is known about the temporal evolution of transient relationships, although these constitute a substantial fraction of people's communication networks. Previous literature suggests that ratings of relationship emotional intensity decay gradually until the relationship ends. Using mobile phone data from three countries (US, UK, and Italy), we demonstrate that the volume of communication between ego and its transient alters does not display such a systematic decay, instead showing a lack of any dominant trends. This means that the communication volume of egos to groups of similar transient alters is stable. We show that alters with longer lifetimes in ego's network receive more calls, with the lifetime of the relationship being predictable from call volume within the first few weeks of first contact. This is observed across all three countries, which include samples of egos at different life stages. The relation between early call volume and lifetime is consistent with the suggestion that individuals initially engage with a new alter so as to evaluate their potential as a tie in terms of homophily.
