Robin Dunbar on The BEYOND Podcast: the evolutionary psychologist

Friendship runs on hard, measurable constraints rather than sentiment: Dunbar's number, the roughly 150-person limit, resolves into nested emotional layers (5, 15, 50, 150, then 500 and 1500), each demanding a fixed time investment of about 200 hours of face-to-face contact to make a close friend, while cultural similarity (the seven pillars of friendship), trust and shared bonding behaviours (the social toolkit, above all singing) decide who we keep.This companion episode brings together Robin Dunbar's conversation, entity by entity.What this episode covers:And- and coworkers in hereFaces you can put names to basicallyYou see this most clearly demonstrated in romantic relationshipsWe're very prone to following people who appear charismaticIs about handling three mind statesThis all hinges around how you define gossipA terribly important roleWhat then makes people wanna push others awayConfidence to handle weaker relationshipsBecause each relationship require, has its own time demandRobin Dunbar, Robin Dunbar, evolutionary psychologist and author of Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships; Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships; Dunbar's number.Listen to the source episode: Robin Dunbar podcast · Robin Dunbar episode on Apple Podcasts · Robin Dunbar episode on Spotify · Robin Dunbar episode on Amazon Music.Read the full story: Robin Dunbar on Dunbar's number.This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King.Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human.BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency