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Summary:

"Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and at just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is"--Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Why friends matter
• Dunbar's Number
• Making friends with your brain
• Friendship in circles
• Your social fingerprint
• Friends in mind
• Time and the magic of touch
• Binding the bonds of friendship
• The languages of friendship
• Homophily and the seven pillars of friendship
• Trust and friendship
• The romance of friendship
• The gendering of friendship
• Why friendships end
• Friendship as we age
• Friends online.

Author/Creator:

Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Friends: understanding the power of our most important relationships [by Dunbar, R.I.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Friends [by Dunbar, R.I.M.] (London : Little, Brown Book Group, 2021 — ISBN 9781408711729; OCLC Number 1255818412)

Subjects:

Friendship

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-404) and index.

Physical Description:

424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

BF575.F66 D86 2021

ISBNs:

9781408711736 (hbk.)
1408711737 (hbk.)
9781408711743 (paperback)
1408711745 (paperback)
9781408711729 (ePub ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020476693

OCLC Numbers:

1233300227