Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoDo “normal” people really have 10 or more close friends? I’ve never had that many close friends my entire life.
Yea, I’m going to have to call monkeysphere theory on this one.
ragas@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
What is that?
nomy@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Monkeysphere theory, or more appropriately, Dunbars Number is a “suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.”
ragas@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Ah! Never heard it as monkeysphere before.