'Dunbar's number' implies that our relationship threshold is limited to 150 people. But is this true?
For most of human history, our forebears were content to live in compact, largely self-sufficient communities. Living and working beside strangers, as is now common in cities and towns across the planet, would have been unheard of; traditionally, everyone would have known their neighbors and the role they played in their tight-knit society.
"I wouldn't say it is absolutely 150 in every circumstance," Johns told Live Science in an email."'Close and meaningful' is likely to result in a much smaller number, but this can also depend on individual factors, such as extraversion and introversion. However, Dunbar's number is supported quite broadly," Johns added.
According to Roberts, there is also something else to consider when it comes to our ability to maintain relationships beyond our cognitive limits: the time and effort required to do so."If someone told you that they had 50 really close friends, you probably wouldn't believe them," Roberts said,"because there is some intuitive sense that maintaining these close friends requires a degree of effort in communicating and meeting up that is limited by time.
"It is important to appreciate that the 150 is simply one of a fractal series of layers in our friendship circles," he said.
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