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Social Connections

Dunbar's Number: Can We Reinvent Our Number of Meaningful Social Connections?

Russell C. Smith | Posted 10.21.2012 | Technology
Read More: Social Connections, Social Media, Social Networks, Dunbar's Number, Physics, Twitter, Electronic Tribes, Evolution, Facebook, Social Groupings, Technology News
Russell C. Smith

According to evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar, our meaningful social circle can't ever exceed between 100 and 230 people. How did Dunbar's number come about?

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Your Friends Could Be Bad For Business

Michaël Bikard | Posted 05.30.2011 | Business
Read More: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Small Business, Friends, Business School, Mit, Business Advice, Entrepreneurs, Social Connections, Pyschology, Friendships, Social Networks, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Business Management, Business News
Michaël Bikard

Beware of the blinding effect of social connections.

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Human Connections: A Powerful Health Care Strategy

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Social Interaction, Mental Health, Human Connections, Social Network, Public Health, Behavioral Influences, Health-Related Behaviors, Obesity, Stress, Social Connections, Physical Health, Healthy Relationships, Network Science, Metabolism, Social Connectors, Blood Pressure, Immune Systems, Dr. Braunstein, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Relationships can be as much of a factor in good health as cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI.

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Americans Have More Friends, and Not Just on Facebook

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Barry Wellman, Faux Friends, Friends, Sociological Analyses, Close Friends, Economic Disparity, Income, Emotional Sharing, Television, Relatives, Social Connections, Social Networks, Media Panic, Surveys, Robert Putnam, Claude Fischer, Neighbors, Internet Use, Nostalgia, Self-Disclosure, Confidants, Myths, Loneliness, USA Today, Education, Social Ties, Social History, Internet, Social Isolation, New York Times, Facebook Friends, Bowling Alone, Miller McPherson, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

Remember the media panic from the summer of 2006 about lonely and isolated Americans? The publication of a sociological study had unleashed a cascade...

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