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Dunbar's Number

The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

“Dunbar’s number” is a theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships humans can maintain at one time. According to Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, humans have the cognitive capacity to keep track of somewhere around 150 close personal connections. Beyond this limited circle, we start treating people less like indi

Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes: " ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neoc... See more

Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

En utilisant la taille moyenne du cerveau humain et en extrapolant à partir des résultats des primates, il a suggéré que les humains pouvaient maintenir confortablement 150 relations stables. Dunbar

M. A • MGTOW: Ces hommes qui prennent leur propre chemin (French Edition)

My anecdotal evidence generally seems to support the idea that group sizes will usually plateau at a number lower than 150 participants. This comes from 20 years of doing facilitation both on and offline, running several software companies, and running various forums at America Online. In particular, many online communities provide good evidence fo... See more

Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

Dunbar’s number plays a certain role in the ensemble-like interaction of the large number of participants on the web. Robin Dunbar, in his research into the brains of primates and the organisation of groups,[54] determined the number of constant social connections that human is capable of maintaining. This number is on average 150 contacts (100 to

Andrey Miroshnichenko • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship

Life does not consist of a set of unrelated dyadic relationships (you and your mum, you and your daughter, you and your best friend). Rather, these dyadic relationships are all embedded within a complex network of relationships where what happens in one dyad spills over and affects what happens in another.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

If a fifth person joins, it will split into two separate conversations within as little as half a minute.