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Tool9 minSocialRationality

The support map

Map who you can turn to for what, and where in the network it is thin.

The path

How it works

  1. Your circleList
  2. Who for whatChoose
  3. Where it is thinChooseWrite
Most of us do not have one single person for everything. We have different people for different kinds of support, and it is completely normal for the network to be stronger in some places than others.

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The evidence

Why does it work?

That different people give different kinds of support, practical, emotional, social, is the basic idea of the convoy model of social relationships in research (Kahn & Antonucci, 1980). Deliberately mapping gaps in the network, rather than assuming they are not there, is linked to stronger social support over time. The mapping itself is structured reflection, not a validated instrument.

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