Communication in social networks: Effects of kinship, network size, and emotional closeness

By Susan C. Roberts, Robin I. M. Dunbar. 2011

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Personality and social networks in organizations: A review and future directions (2016, background): “Cognitive network research suggests people have an upper limit on the number of social ties they can monitor and maintain at any one time (Roberts & Dunbar, 2011), but there are considerable differences between people in terms of the number of social ties each person has.”
The Relationship between Facebook Use and Well-Being depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength (2016, background): “Social ties need a regular investment of effort to stay alive (Roberts & Dunbar, 2010).”
Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use (2014, background): “Kinship ties are resilient because of biological selection pressures to favor those who share a genetic line [29], early childhood experiences that foster strong attachments [4], and social institutions including marriage and child custody laws that support kinship.”
Persistence of social signatures in human communication (2012, background): “One problem is that it may be difficult to separate out the cognitive and time aspects of relationships, because it seems that the time invested in a relationship may determine its emotional quality (25, 27).”
Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? (2016, background): “The first three layers have been identified in several online datasets [33] and, at least in humans, appear to be a consequence of a constraint on available social time [34] combined with a relationship between time invested in a relationship and its quality (as rated in terms of emotional closeness”