Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
What is that?
nomy@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Ah! Never heard it as monkeysphere before.