- Science
- Global
Identity traits sharply narrow who becomes friends or marries, model reveals
- May 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
- 54 views
Our personal identity is composed of many dimensions, such as age, gender, ethnic background, or socioeconomic status. A research team led by Fariba Karimi from the Institute of Human-Centered Computing at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and Samuel Martin-Gutierrez from the Complexity Science Hub developed the statistical computational model "MAPS" to calculate the influence of these factors on our social relationships.
Originally published at Phys.org