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Friends : understanding the power of our most important relationships / Robin Dunbar.
Van Pelt Library BF575.F66 D86 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship.
- Physical Description:
- 424 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Little, Brown, 2021.
- Summary:
- Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and at just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is. From back cover.
- Contents:
- Why friends matter
- Dunbar's Number
- Making friends with your brain
- Friendship in circles
- Your social fingerprint
- Friends in mind
- Time and the magic of touch
- Binding the bonds of friendship
- The languages of friendship
- Homophily and the seven pillars of friendship
- Trust and friendship
- The romance of friendship
- The gendering of friendship
- Why friendships end
- Friendship as we age
- Friends online.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-404) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781408711736
- 1408711737
- 1408711745
- 9781408711743
- OCLC:
- 1233300227
- Publisher Number:
- 99988073726
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