Robin Dunbar: Dunbar's Number, Gossip and the Limits of Friendship
Robin Dunbar, the Oxford evolutionary psychologist who formulated Dunbar's Number, joins Aleksandra King on The BEYOND Podcast to explain how humans really form social bonds.
A social media friends list is not what it looks like. Most people can realistically sustain only around 150 meaningful relationships, and behind that number sits an architecture of intimacy, from the core five shoulders to cry on, out to a sympathy group of 15 and a weekend barbecue layer of 50. Robin and Aleksandra King work outwards through those layers, and this Robin Dunbar podcast conversation moves between…
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