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probably where you draw most of your everyday social companions from

‘willpower depletion’:

it was the size of the community that was nearest to 150.

Thomas Fudge’s: typically, people indicated that only 16–20 per cent of the friends listed on their Facebook page could be considered real friends.

In other words, women really can multitask, whereas men do better if they focus on one thing at a time.

O ur specific level of evolutionary development as thinking beings makes the process of self-evaluation inevitable and supremely important to us. From this process, we need to emerge with positive self-esteem. Since thinking is involved here and since thinking is an act of choice, attaining positive self-esteem is often a struggle of heroic proport

This study is particularly important because it asked everyone else what they thought about you: this allowed them to determine the number of friends people actually had

in men it was usually triggered by threats to status, whereas in young women it was more likely to be initiated by threats to their relationships with a boyfriend.

confidence.