How many friends a person can have actually Bashny.Net

Is my wife a half hour to walk around our city (with almost a million inhabitants), as we will meet at least three friends of my half. People like my wife manage to support an incredible number of friendships, while others are satisfied with a few units.

It may seem that a lot of friends – it's very good: friendships definitely make us happier and social life, according to studies, is more important for the longevity and satisfaction than diet or exercise.





But is there a limit? How many friends people can actually have?

Let's start with the duration of the communication. To chat with one or two sides can be fun, but the further — the more people, the harder it is to communicate.

Psychologists say that for once we can master communicating with five sides (so everyone can Express their point of view and answer each other's questions). If the company is going more than five people, then a elementary too much distance between each pair of sides so that people could hear each other. Of course, five people – is a reference number that can vary depending on the level of background noise, which is "the miracle of human communication."

Interestingly, a small number of interlocutors also has a certain aesthetic appeal: in 2014, the researchers have analyzed the most popular paintings (ancient and modern) and found that more than half of them depicted three people or less. Large groups of people on one canvas – is a rarity.

Taking into account the limit of sides for a comfortable communicating, you can roughly calculate the amount of friends that a person can afford at one time.

The most famous work on this topic was published in 1993. The author Robin Dunbar watched animals like primates and found that the volume gamogenetically cortex of their brain is associated with the number of individuals in their social group.

Dunbar then extrapolated these results to the amount of human gamogenetically bark and figured out that people can form groups from 107 to 248 individuals, on average, it turns out 150 people.

Relations are necessary to support and nourish social connections grow weak without regular personal communication.

Community of hunters and gatherers account for an average of 148 people. Villages or tribes begin to form small groups of 30-50 people. Then a few villages or genera are combined into a single large clan numbering 250-2500 employees. According to the findings of Dunbar, those large clans are based not on interpersonal relations — it is beginning to act kind of group identity.

The hypothesis of Dunbar can also be extended to other groups of people. In most professional armies, for example, a military unit is about 150 people. So it was in the Roman Empire, so it is now. Hutterites (members of the Protestant sect) live in colonies of about 150 people. In larger groups it becomes more difficult to influence members of his circle, the harder it is to control them.

In other words, more than 150 people, it is just not enough time to maintain personal relationships with everyone.

But can we assume that "number of Dunbar" is relevant in our time – in an age of global world connected by the Internet? By counting the number average sotsialnoy network, we find that it is almost twice the number of Dunbar. An anthropologist at the University of Florida Russell Bernard and Oxford specialist socialnyh networks Peter Killworth the result of their research came to the conclusion that today, on average people in regular contact with 291 person. This number is known as "the number of Bernard-Killworth".

Dunbar is convinced that the discrepancy between his number and the number Bernarda-Killworth reflects the gap between the really meaningful relationships and simple acquaintances. Various studies related to social networks, confirm this statement.

In 2011, researchers analyzed the accounts of 1.7 million Twitter users and found that the number of "social ties" between 100 and 200, even those people who are very actively using the service.

Consequently, even in the "network of life" the attention we can give to others, is still limited to the framework of the "Dunbar number".published

 

Translation Evelyn Gallop

 

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