Amigos

Friends are important, and much more than we think. Over the last decade in the medical literature there has been increasing emphasis on the fact that the number and quality of our friendships greatly influence our happiness and our health and may even reduce the risk of mortality more than anything else. except quit smoking.Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who discovered the famous "Dunbar number," in which he limits our friendship capacity to about 150 people. In Friends, the author looks at friendship as a whole: the way in which different types of friendships and family relationships intersect, the amalgamation of psychological and behavioral mechanisms that sustain and make them possible, and how complicated it is both to generate them and to create them. keep them.With a blend of insights from scientists and first-hand experiences, Amigos explores and integrates knowledge from disciplines ranging from psychology and anthropology to neuroscience and genetics into a single magical fabric that allows us to observe the incredible complexity of our social world.Robin Dunbar has written the definitive book on how and why we have friends.