{"id":7209,"date":"2026-07-26T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchtoday.co.za\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:59:46","slug":"your-friends-may-be-more-cynical-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchtoday.co.za\/?p=7209","title":{"rendered":"Your Friends May Be More Cynical Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friendship requires a small act of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know our friends are imperfect. We have watched them complain, misjudge people, become irritated and occasionally assume the worst. Yet we rarely hold those moments together and conclude that the person beside us is fundamentally suspicious of everyone else&#8217;s motives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We tend to give friends a kinder reading. New research suggests that tendency may be more systematic than we realise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a study of 346 people arranged into 173 pairs of friends, psychologist William J. Chopik found that participants consistently judged their friends as <strong>less cynical than those friends judged themselves<\/strong>. They were not completely wrong about one another. But their view was tilted in a favourable direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interesting question is why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We do see our friends, just through a softer lens<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cynicism, as measured in the study, refers broadly to mistrust of other people, antagonism and the belief that others are primarily motivated by self-interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each participant reported their own level of cynicism and estimated the cynicism of their friend. Chopik then used a statistical approach designed to separate several things that normally become tangled together when we judge someone close to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, are we actually able to see what that person is like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To some extent, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants showed what researchers call <strong>tracking accuracy<\/strong>: people who described themselves as more cynical were, on average, also perceived as somewhat more cynical by their friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But another pattern appeared at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People systematically underestimated how cynical their friends were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result is not simply that friendship makes us blind. It may be closer to saying that we see what is there, then give it the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We also assume our friends think like us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was another distortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants tended to project their own outlook onto their friends. More cynical people assumed their friends were more cynical too, while less cynical people tended to see a similarly less suspicious worldview in those around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psychologists refer to this as <strong>assumed similarity<\/strong>. It is easy to recognise in ordinary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A person who instinctively mistrusts someone&#8217;s motives may assume that a close friend noticed the same thing. Someone who generally expects the best from people may be surprised when a friend interprets exactly the same behaviour much more suspiciously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friendship can create a sense that another person sees the world roughly as we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes they do. Sometimes closeness merely makes that assumption feel natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New friendships showed the strongest effect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the study&#8217;s more revealing findings involved how long people had known each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On average, participants were around 20 years old and had known their friend for about 4.6 years. Some friendships were only a few months old, while others stretched back as far as 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People in newer friendships underestimated their friends&#8217; cynicism more strongly than those in longer-established relationships. Other measures, including closeness and trust, showed little evidence of consistently changing the pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something intuitively familiar about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early friendship is partly an exercise in discovering who another person is. There are fewer arguments to remember, fewer disappointments to place in context and fewer occasions on which a person&#8217;s less flattering tendencies have had time to reveal themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A favourable interpretation may help the relationship get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether that positive bias actually <em>causes<\/em> friendships to form or last longer is another question. This study cannot answer it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perhaps friendship needs some illusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeing another person accurately sounds like an obvious virtue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But relationships may require something more complicated than perfect objectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If every impatient comment became evidence of character, every cancelled plan evidence of unreliability and every suspicious remark evidence of deep cynicism, relationships would become remarkably unforgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chopik suggests that friendships may involve a balance between recognising enough reality to know whom we can trust and maintaining sufficiently positive perceptions to preserve cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to see friends accurately enough to know who we can trust, but positively enough to maintain cooperation and closeness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That does not mean ignoring behaviour that genuinely breaks trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Positive perception has a downside when it becomes an excuse not to see what is plainly there. Chopik himself cautioned that viewing friends too generously could mean overlooking problematic behaviour or placing trust in the wrong person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The distinction is subtle. Thinking well of someone is not the same as refusing to see them clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There are limits to what this study can tell us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The participants were predominantly young university students in the United States. About 70% were women, the average age was 19.6, and most pairs had met through school or a school-related setting. The research also captured the friendships at one point in time rather than following how perceptions changed over several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That makes cultural and age-related generalisation particularly important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study does not establish that South African friendships, older friendships or relationships formed in very different social settings show exactly the same pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nor does it prove that viewing friends positively makes relationships stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What it reveals is narrower, but perhaps more interesting: when people describe someone they have chosen as a friend, complete objectivity does not appear to be what they bring to the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They bring themselves. Their own expectations. Their own worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, quite often, a slightly kinder interpretation of the person sitting across from them. Perhaps that is not a flaw in friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps part of being someone&#8217;s friend has always involved seeing who they are, while leaving a little room for who we believe them to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Study Title:<\/strong> <em>Cynicism among friends: Accuracy and bias in cynicism judgments<\/em><br><strong>Author:<\/strong> William J. Chopik<br><strong>Published online:<\/strong> 20 April 2026<br><strong>DOI:<\/strong> 10.1016\/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106884<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People tend to see their friends as less cynical than those friends see themselves. 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