Recall that festinger and his colleagues (1950) conducted research at a university housing project called westgate west. among other things, they examined friendship formation among apartment residents. the results showed that the residents living near the stairwells formed twice as many friendships with upstairs neighbors as those living in the middle apartments, which were further from the stairs.
these results illustrate the impact of on friendship formation.

Functional distance

Explanation:

 According to the given situation, the impact of the functional distance best illustrate about the friendship formation result.

The functional distance is basically refers to the physical distance between two people due to the architecture or the location according to the social psychologist.

The functional distance is basically defined as the arrangement of the residential facilities that influenced the social interaction and common mailboxes are one of the example of the physical distance.

Therefore, Functional distance is the correct answer.  

no

explanation:

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