The Decay of Adult Friendship in America.
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The Decay of Adult Friendship in America.
If you lose 10 per cent of your inner-core relationships each year, that would seem to imply that it will take you about ten years to fall out with all of the members of your inner two layers.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
In both cases, there is a tendency for the partner’s half of the network to disappear quite quickly, especially the more casual friendships, thereby exacerbating the effects of loneliness and social isolation.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of N... See more
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