Friendship and Social Relationships - Robin Dunbar

The full title of this webinar is 'Friendship and Social Relationships: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships', given by Robin Dunbar, Emeritus Professor, Oxford University, UK on the 27th of January 2022 at 16.00 GMT. Please excuse the technical issues with this recording of the event.
Robin Dunbar is professor at University of Oxford; he is an evolutionary psychologist, evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist; he is the author of over 400 scientific articles, author or editor of over 20 academic books and author of another dozen popular science books.
Many of the titles of his books have the term evolution in them and even more have evolutionary content. He is widely known for his seminal work on the social brain, human encephalisation and of course the famous Dunbar’s number.
His most recent book, published in 2021, is titled: Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships and that is also the title of his talk in this video. You can buy it here: www.amazon.com/Friends-Robin-...

[@EthanReadsHisBooks]

Thanks for posting!

[@markmitchell8374]

great stuff:)

[@joanmoloney8188]

what I often wonder about how tho is how do research academics find quality time to nurture social friendships ie support the social group

[@iuvalclejan]

All these experiments should be repeated for existing hunter-gatherer cultures like the Piraha and Kung. I bet they will score higher on grooming and endorphins. I was confused by the historical graph that shows grooming going up with time (contrary to my intuition). How would you know what percent of time was spent grooming by our ancestors? Was that graph about speculated kinds of grooming increasing with length of time from the past?

[@iuvalclejan]

It's not like our ancestors didn't dance, laugh, have mystical (not just religious) experiences with each other and nature, and tell stories! They may have had a smaller number of people to connect with, but it seems like the connections were much more "endorphin-rich" than a typical person in today's society.

[@scottlee7086]

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[@jonathantsbower]

? What?