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It really does seem that your social fingerprint is characteristic of you as a person, though we have no idea why this might be so.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

confidence.

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Being a social butterfly flitting from one friendship or activity group to another isn’t the same thing psychologically as having a few close friends with whom you spend most of your time. You are likely not to feel part of a group, and so to feel lonely even though you think you are socially very busy.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

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

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

This concept of justice, I am persuaded, provides the best possible foundation for social cooperation, benevolence, and mutual aid. Reflecting a commitment to self-responsibility, it fosters the growth of individualism but not of narcissism. It reminds us that other people do not exist to satisfy our needs and wants; they are not our servants, as w

Nathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect

Men seemed to take special pleasure in seeing those who had behaved badly getting punished in a way that women generally did not. More

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

It seems to me that egos emerge in order to take care of our needs in contexts where we don’t trust the strategy of surrendering to the We. The paradox is that the presence of ego is often one of the main things in the way of the We being able to take care of our needs.

estimated that there was an upper limit at around 2,000 on the number of faces we could put names to.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

The fact that our online social world is virtually identical to our offline social world tells us that the constraints are in our minds and not in the technology of how we communicate: