Friendship research is getting an update – and that's key for dealing with the loneliness epidemic
Jessica D. Ayerstheconversation.com
Friendship research is getting an update – and that's key for dealing with the loneliness epidemic
the socio-emotional theory of friendship (which suggests that we become more and more selective as we grow older to focus on those few emotionally valuable friendships)
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
our choice of friends is heavily dictated by trying to find like-minded people, people we feel comfortable with in casual company, people we don’t have to explain the joke to every time, people who think like us and whose behaviour we don’t have to work hard at trying to understand, people with whom conversations have a natural and effortless flow
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