Perspective-taking and memory capacity predict social network size

By James Stiller, Robin I. M. Dunbar. Soc. Networks, 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Social Networks and Cognition (2020, background): “Sub-sequent research has generally supported this link (Barton 1996; Dunbar 1993, 1995; Gonçalves et al. 2011; Kudo & Dunbar 2001; Stiller & Dunbar 2007) and has identified cognitive limits on social network size (Roberts et al. 2009).”
Antecedents and Consequences of Social Network Characteristics for Expatriate Adjustment and Performance in Overseas Assignments: Implications for HRD (2008, background): “In support of this notion, Stiller and Dunbar (2007) found that individual differences in the ability to reflect on social perspectives explained the variance in an individual’s network size.”
Resources That Make You Generous: Effects of Social and Human Resources on Charitable Giving (2009, background): “Stiller and Dunbar (2007) argue that people with higher cognitive abilities are better able “to integrate and maintain an updated mental database of the social relationships” in their network (Stiller and Dunbar 2007:94-95).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “1177/0149206312471393JOuRNAl OF MANAgEMENTBagozzi et al. / Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism 2012 Acknowledgments: The extensive feedback and recommendations made by three anonymous reviewers and the editor are gratefully acknowledged.”
Agreeableness is related to social‐cognitive, but not social‐perceptual, theory of mind (2008, methodology): “Third, Stiller and Dunbar (2007) find that a measure of ToM predicts the size of people’s social networks, Paal and Bereczkei (2007) find ToM performance to be closely correlated with social cooperation, and Mohr, Howells, Gerace, Day, & Wharton (2007) find that ToM is associated with angry…”
Persistence of social signatures in human communication (2012, background): “Although there are obvious constraints on the time available for interactions (5–7), additional constraints may also arise through limits on memory capacity (3, 8) or other cognitive abilities (9, 10).”
Providing Adaptive Health Updates Across the Personal Social Network (2014, background): “The consistent structure of the network (Figure 2) is common across cultural and socioeconomic groups (Roberts et al., 2008; Stiller & Dunbar, 2007; Zhou, Sornette, Hill, & Dunbar, 2005).”
The structure of online social networks mirrors those in the offline world (2015, background): “…mental state) form a natural recursion running from first order (the state of self-4 consciousness) through second order (formal theory of mind) to fifth order in normal human adults, with a range in adults of around fourth to seventh order (Kinderman et al. 2008, Stiller and Dunbar 2007).”
Individual Differences in Theory of Mind From Preschool to Adolescence: Achievements and Directions (2015, neutral): “Other measures might include studying children engaged in socially taxing situations, such as peer entry paradigms (26), or reporting on the frequency of social contact and the size of social networks (31).”