Making good things happen: optimism and the range of personal social networks
Using the 2004 General Social Survey, I illuminate how dispositional optimism as a form of emotional capital enhances personal network range while also contributing to public goods through the formation of heterophilous ties. Network size and diversity are conceptualized as outcomes of optimistic fu...
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University of Iowa
2010
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/775 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1960&context=etd |