New psychology study challenges a major assumption about why we bond with our friends

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Seeing friends as loyal, open, and agreeable is strongly linked to feeling content in the relationship.
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Neither actual personality matching nor perceived matching predicted friendship satisfaction, despite the belief that similarity improves relationships.
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Friends resemble each other on four of five major personality traits, but only weakly, with correlations around .05 to .10.
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People see their friends as more similar to themselves than those friends’ own personality reports reveal.
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Matching personalities does not guarantee a great friendship. The strength of positive traits matters more than similarity.
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How you perceive your friend’s personality predicts friendship satisfaction more strongly than how your friend rates themselves.
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Emotionally stable friends reduce daily conflict and stress, while high neuroticism makes interactions more difficult.
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Friends perceived as highly agreeable and conscientious are consistently linked to better relationship well-being.
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Friendship satisfaction is higher among people who are agreeable, conscientious, extraverted, and emotionally stable.
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Personality similarity may work differently across ages and cultures as social networks and friendship dynamics change.
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These findings may not extend beyond relatively young, close, mostly same-gender friendships, especially friendships between women.

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