Honors Projects
Abstract
People are put into “the friend zone” when they want to pursue a romantic relationship with a friend but find that their friend wants only a platonic relationship. With this research I (a) estimated the frequencies of heterosexual college students' having put an opposite-sex friend into the friend zone and having been put into the friend zone by an opposite-sex friend, (b) examined the emotions associated with these friend-zone experiences, and (c) explored college students' perceptions of characters navigating a friend-zone experience as depicted in two short video clips. Discussion focuses on results concerning the ubiquity of friend-zone experiences, the emotions associated with rejecting and being rejected by a friend, and identification with and interpretation of fictional characters.
First Advisor
Anne K. Gordon
First Advisor Department
Psychology
Second Advisor
Jeremy Wallach
Second Advisor Department
Popular Culture
Publication Date
Spring 2014
Repository Citation
Chapman, Ashley, "Warning! You Are About to Enter "The Friend Zone": College Students' Experiences with the Friend Zone and Perceptions of Fictional Characters in Friend-Zone Roles" (2014). Honors Projects. 98.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/98