What kind of a task would lead to friendship development?
They could take turns telling non racist slightly dirty jokes and smoke pot together. Sex is bonding and so is laughter. Partners in crimes quickly become friends. Smoking pot won’t bring together the same way once its legalized. Cigarettes, now illegal to smoke publicly, is very bonding I’ve noticed and I feel left out when in the presence of people who just meet and can smoke together but I don’t. Since you can’t very well do something illegal for a social psychology study, you could have them instigate a game only they know about, like a code word, only the small group is privy to. Car pooling when they have to pick each other up at each others homes where they can not honk but must walk up to the house and meet the people they pick up at the door will bring them closer, and even more so if they are invited into a person’s ;home. Grooming another person really bonds them, like make them comb each others hair and look into each others eyes a lot as they do so. Take them to a sensitiv
