Comments on: Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar’s Brain

By: You Are Not So Smart | Delightful & Distinctive COLRS

You Are Not So Smart | Delightful & Distinctive COLRS — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:51:57 +0000

[...] our existing beliefs, something all the more perilous in the age of the filter bubble – to Dunbar’s Number, our evolution-imposed upper limit of 150 friends, which pulls into question those common [...]

By: You Don’t Live in the Twitterverse: a Plea to Ground Yourself in Place : The Last Word On Nothing

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:02:41 +0000

[...] Dobbs made these remarks in a piece about Dunbar’s number, a theory developed by evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who defines his eponymous number this way. “It’s the number of people that you can have a personal, reciprocated relationship with.” For humans, the Dunbar number equates to roughly 150 relationships. “You can have extra friends beyond the 150, but they’re not personalized friends…they’re just voyeurs into your little world,” Dunbar says. [...]

By: Picking Robin Dunbar?s Brain: An Interview About Friends | urifukoti

Picking Robin Dunbar?s Brain: An Interview About Friends | urifukoti — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:57:10 +0000

[...] to local friendship versus those more distant. Now, by chance, Filip Matous over at Brain Pickings interviews Robin Dunbar about these and other questions. An interesting interview about an idea that?s wielding much [...]

By: This Week In Brand Strategy & Marketing - PSFK

This Week In Brand Strategy & Marketing - PSFK — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:12:24 +0000

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By: The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › Dunbar on his number

The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › Dunbar on his number — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:06:26 +0000

[...] From via @justinpickard This was written by Vinay Gupta. Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at 8:06 pm. Filed under Everything Else. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. [...]

By: Brain Pickings Redux 2010 | Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings Redux 2010 | Brain Pickings — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:28:30 +0000

[...] Alice In Wonderland. In an original interview, legendary anthropologist Robin Dunbar distilled our psychosocial capacity for Facebook friends. We explored the history of the Rube Goldberg machine as a cinematic technique long before OK Go [...]

By: Robin Dunbar: Why you cannot have more than 150 real friends | StandStrong.TV

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:07:58 +0000

[...] I had the pleasure of guest blogging on Brain Pickings this week. To read the full article please click here. [...]

By: Can we have more than 12 friends? « Sawyer Speaks

Can we have more than 12 friends? « Sawyer Speaks — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:37:34 +0000

[...] the quality of our social interactions? Are we spreading ourselves too thin? (See Dunbar’s take here.) Or does the new media allow us to transcend, or tinker with, previously immutable biological [...]

By: Research digest (weekly) « Sho Tyz Inc.

Research digest (weekly) « Sho Tyz Inc. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:17:15 +0000

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