How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks

By A. Hama. 2011

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Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories (2019, background): “Without doubt, the social comparison process is not unproblematic, because it might lead to lower self-esteem [79] and the size of one’s own real social network to be successfully handled seems to be limited by the so called Dunbar’s number (a theoretical limit to the number of people with whom any ”
How many hours does it take to make a friend? (2019, background): “Dunbar (1996, 2010) proffers five categories in order of decreasing closeness: support clique, sympathy group, friendship group, clansmen, and acquaintances.”