Sublime

The more friends you had, the bigger were the bits of the brain known to be involved in social skills

Sociologists have been aware for some considerable time that social networks decline progressively as we enter old age.

men, but not women, have had to be able to form functional alliances in order to protect the social group and their interests in it from outside attack

these were triads composed of three positive friendships

twenty things they might have done with them. These twenty items reduced to four key dimensions in terms of maintenance activities:

brain size determines mentalising ability, and mentalising ability determines the number of friends you have.

five people within the sympathy group that we named the support clique because it consisted of all the people who would unstintingly give you support or help if you needed

provision of eight social benefits

does our online social world actually look anything like our offline, face-to-face world?