{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/optimize-a-social-interaction-for-pleasantness-not-just-count",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0525",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Optimize a social interaction for pleasantness, not just count",
  "summary": "Ten interactions can still make a poor social day if every one feels strained.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Track whether recurring interactions feel respectful, interested and mutually comfortable, not only how many occurred. If frequency rises while quality falls, reduce the quota and improve the setting or conversation. The research signal here is that pleasantness carries information beyond raw interaction frequency.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not demand that every necessary or meaningful relationship interaction feel pleasant in the moment."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-everyday-social-connection"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-2C48E2FA6C4F2832"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A 2025 ecological-momentary/panel study found more frequent neighbor interactions and more pleasant interactions were associated with better momentary subjective well-being, while friend/family interactions related to lower negative affect and higher life satisfaction.",
      "source_id": "RS-2C48E2FA6C4F2832",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The design strengthens temporal analysis but does not establish a universal causal effect from any single interaction.",
      "locator": "Highlights and abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The 2025 everyday-interaction study found interaction pleasantness mattered in addition to raw interaction frequency.",
      "source_id": "RS-2C48E2FA6C4F2832",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Pleasantness is subjective and can reflect broader context.",
      "locator": "Highlights"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A social goal has become a quota of messages or conversations that feel mechanical."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not demand that every necessary or meaningful relationship interaction feel pleasant in the moment."
  ],
  "example": "Replace a daily 'message five people' target with one or two contacts you can engage with attentively.",
  "check": "Your social practice can improve interaction quality even if the raw count stays the same or falls.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-2C48E2FA6C4F2832",
      "title": "Feeling connected, feeling poor? The dual impact of everyday interactions with neighbors and relative deprivation on subjective well-being",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362500543X"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-7EA7AE5F77E4BAE5",
      "title": "Build connection from small repeatable interactions, not only big social plans",
      "url": "/collections/build-connection-from-small-repeatable-interactions-not-only-big-social-plans"
    }
  ]
}