Participants were asked about how often they had ghosted dates and friends, but the questions didn’t use the word ‘ghosting’. Instead, they referred to similar behaviours, like cutting off ...

Dear Eric: I did a bad thing – I ghosted a friend. The friendship made me uncomfortable. I thought he had romantic feelings for me, or maybe he just wanted more from the relationship than I did.

while high self-esteem predicts ghosting friends, with ghosting friends leading to higher depressive tendencies over time. “Ghosting refers to a one-sided termination of communication without ...

Almost 40% of people have been ghosted by a friend – so why does the experience feel so heavy with shame? And how do you get over it? When writer Clara Strunck was ghosted by an old pal ...

In some cases, friends might be experiencing a “communication overload” and unable to respond to all of the messages they receive (Forrai et al., 2023). In other cases, ghosting is an ...