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we spend around 20 per cent of our eighteen-hour waking day engaged in social interaction.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
two sexes effectively live in two very different social worlds.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
interpersonal difficulties
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
our brains are not designed to reward generosity as reliably as they punish meanness.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
As a result, they more often just fizzle out quietly.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
these patterns are the result not of accidental fluctuations but rather of decades of choice and adaptation by successive waves of different individuals sharing certain traits.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
A gap of ten to fifteen days without a call resulted in a dramatic increase in the length of the next call for people that were normally called every day or two.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
found that the friends and family have very distinct signatures in the frequencies with which we contact them,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
almost by accident rather than design.