Friendships often alternate between periods of development and deterioration

People who endorse a __________ self believe that people should be who they truly are in all situations and should not manage their identities to fit in

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Harold and Maude have been good, close friends for a couple of years. One night over dinner at a favorite restaurant, Harold disclosed that he would like their relationship to become a romance, with a monogamous sexual dimension

If Maude had read recent research on cross-sex friendship, what would she have understood about Harold's suggestion? A. Research suggests that, in the majority of cases, men in cross-sex friendships will attempt to turn the friendship into romance. B. Research suggests that men tend to form friendships with women based on sexual motivations, while women's motives tend to be more platonic in nature. C. Research on cross-sex friendship is so new that no conclusions or predictions can be made about a person's motives in this kind of relationship. D. Research suggests that, in most cases, women would like a friendship to turn sexual, but they believe it's the man's place to suggest this kind of change.