Can Men and Women Actually Be Friends?
In fact, this tendency to segregate by sex appears even more strongly in respect of best friends.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
women always had slightly more friends than men.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
If we want to make and keep friends, we need to swim against the tides of disconnection that have been gradually contaminating us for centuries.
Marisa G. Franco, PhD • Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
Some social scientists and even philosophers suggest a different vision of friendship, in which friendship is conceived not as a ledger of emotional debits and credits but as an organic creation — an artwork — built by the friends themselves. Conceived in this way, friendships are not ranked or stratified along a bright line from BFF to near strang... See more