Their attitudes and preferences remained unaffected when they were exposed to intelligence goals or friendship goals.

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In the first two studies, more than 350 men and women viewed images or listened to conversations that featured romantic, friendship or intellectual goals.

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And more than anything else, that was the basis of their friendship because these two separate goals had converged.

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And we are gathered here to reaffirm our friendship and to renew our common commitment towards our shared goals.

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This question was addressed in a large-scale project by Gretchen Rubin who tried to increase her happiness over the course of a year by setting herself specific goals that covered, among other areas, marriage, work, leisure, parenthood, friendship, money and so on.

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