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Does similarity help friendship? What is associated with relationship satisfaction? Why does one team perform a shared task better? This catalog collects scientific work on such specific questions. The first release contains 24 works in three thematic collections. Each entry provides a link, a description of the investigation, an accessible account of the result, and limitations.
This is a growing selection, not an exhaustive systematic review. The first release's search date is 6 September 2026. Research on relationships and shared work does not itself validate Socionics, Psychosophy, Temporistics, or BWB's four levels.
Choose your question
| Question | Collection | Works | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What is known about similarity, personality, attachment, and the quality of close relationships? | [[compatibility-studies-couples-en | Close relationships]] | 8 |
| How do friendship, trust, and coordinated work develop? | [[compatibility-studies-cooperation-en | Friendship and teams]] | 8 |
| What can be predicted, and what changes after programs supporting couples? | [[compatibility-studies-prediction-en | Prediction and relationship change]] | 8 |
For historical sequence, open the history of attempts to solve compatibility. Entries within the collections take you from the broad history to a specific investigation.
How to read an entry
Imagine two friends deciding to open a workshop. Research on similarity between friends may help frame a question about choosing a partner. Team research may suggest questions about trust and task allocation. Neither yet tells us whether their particular workshop will succeed.
First find the measured outcome: attraction, a friendship tie, satisfaction, separation, conflict, or task performance. Then check who was studied, for how long, and against which comparison. An association does not establish a cause; accuracy in one sample does not guarantee accuracy in another.
Entries provide the citation, question, method and sample, main finding, limitations, and relevance to BWB's research questions. Numerical estimates appear where they could be verified. A missing number does not mean a zero effect. Summaries based on abstracts are explicitly marked and do not replace reading the full text.
What is included and what is missing
The first release selects peer-reviewed reviews, meta-analyses, and individual studies directly relevant to relationships or cooperation. Priority goes to syntheses and studies that reveal limits of earlier findings. A meta-analysis combines results across studies; its strength depends on the included evidence and methods.
The term “official study” is not used as a quality label. Publication status, a verifiable source, and the method behind the conclusion matter. Commercial matching promises do not count as scientific confirmation. Negative and conflicting findings are included alongside positive findings.
Coverage is limited to selected topics and accessible sources; exhaustive database coverage and independent duplicate screening were not performed. Non-Western samples, care relationships, family cooperation beyond romantic couples, and value disagreements need further searches. Results about romantic couples should not be transferred to friends or teams without separate testing.
For researchers and future additions
Search records are in research/compatibility-catalog/: couples-search.md, cooperation-search.md, and prediction-search.md. They record queries, sources, and text access. Future releases should preserve this trail and attach corrections or replication findings to the relevant work.
Before applying a finding, ask: do the context, participants, outcome, and time horizon match our task? What explains the result besides proposed compatibility? What would testing BWB add beyond predictors that have already been studied?
Next reading
Start with the close relationships collection, or visit compatibility measurement methods to design your own investigation.