Calling Dunbar's numbers

The social brain hypothesis predicts that humans have an average of about 150 relationships at any given time. Within this 150, there are layers of friends of an ego, where the number of friends in a layer increases as the emotional closeness decreases. Here we analyse a mobile phone dataset, firstl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mac Carron, P, Kaski, K, Dunbar, R
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016