Beyond Dunbar circles: a continuous description of social relationships and resource allocation

Abstract We discuss the structure of human relationship patterns in terms of a new formalism that allows to study resource allocation problems where the cost of the resource may take continuous values. This is in contrast with the main focus of previous studies where relationships were classified in...

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Main Authors: Ignacio Tamarit, Angel Sánchez, José A. Cuesta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06066-1