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Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS, indexing activities such as sky-diving and mountain climbing), Disinhibition (DIS, indexing behaviours like drug and alcohol abuse, vandalism or unsafe sex), Experience Seeking (ES, indexing travel, psychedelic drugs and music) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS, indexing proneness to boredom and the need to be doing
... See moreRobin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
as it was becoming increasingly clear that a lot of people also used dating sites just to make new friends, which was a much larger opportunity.
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
dyadic relationships (with a chief focus on romantic partners) and social networks (how well embedded you are in your social community).
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
those in the 500-layer know who we are.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
was the effect of the repeated social connection with other people.
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
cues of commitment
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Neuroticism and Agreeableness.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
relies on people’s tendency to be drawn to novelty as a way to increase the depth of her new friendships quickly.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.