How the brain generates the priority some of your friends over others Bashny.Net

Journal of the National Academy of Sciences published the results of a curious research, which revealed that if we get a new friend/girlfriend, we have to say "liberate" a place for him in his old environment, that is, to oust someone from old friends, ending a relationship with him. In other words, people can be friends only with a limited number of close friends.





Researchers at Oxford University, analyzed as formed by communication students, drew attention to the fact that, in General, people do not have sufficient mental resources and time to maintain too many close and intimate relationships.

Perhaps this is due to the excessive congestion of the daily routine, or due to the fact that we are limited in the manifestation of our emotions or because of both. These restrictions do not allow people to broaden their friends to infinity, and in this regard, we have to neglect someone's communication in favour of a new acquaintance.

The actions of our brains is akin to the work of the bouncers of the club – it controls the number of people accumulating in one place, when a new person, the other should be removed, i.e., a new friend comes, the old must go.

Does this mean that we subconsciously have a limited set of friends? And the saying "make new friends, and old don't lose" has lost its relevance? In other words a new friend desire, and your old brain is not physically able any more to accept, even if you used to call him three times a day.

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