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The Science of Making and Keeping Friends | Robin Dunbar

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Are You Defining Close Friends?

We use a very simple rating metric which is simply a one to ten scale how emotionally close do you feel to this person where ten is effectively I love them dearly and one is I'm kind of neutral. If you ask people to rate everybody that they know on this scale then you see these layers pop out quite nicely. That scale then turns out to correlate very nicely with the time devoted to that person. The people you are emotionally closest to you see most often so that means that we can then use kind of just the frequency with which people contact each other be that phone, text or posting on social media.

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