Friends

About the book

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.

Where it comes up

Modern Wisdom

Why You Don’t Feel Loved (even when you are) - Sonja Lyubomirsky - #1115 · 2026-06-25 · with Sonja Lyubomirsky
“They put all their eggs in my basket where it's women have very close friendships, social support networks. But again, I think friends are what makes life worth living and yeah, so really maintain those friendships. Did you read Friends by Robin Dunbar?”
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