How Many Friendships Can You Really Keep At Once?

Просмотров 10 тыс.

% 147

How many people in your life would you call a friend? And how many of those would you consider close? According to Dunbar’s theory, we reach our limit for meaningful relationships around the 150 number. Subscribe to ABC Science RU-vid 👉 ab.co/2YFO4Go
This excerpt about Dunbar's theory is from the Australian documentary series, Catalyst - The Science Of Relationships. Australians can stream the full program on ABC iview here 👉 ab.co/2nFL0tp
#ScienceOfRelationships #ABCCatalyst #ABCScience
Subscribe: ab.co/2YFO4Go
Like: ABCScience
Follow: ABCscience // abchealth
---------------------------------------------------------------
This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation RU-vid channel.
Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use
www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).

Наука

Опубликовано:

10 авг 2022

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 23

@whatthefunction9140 Год назад

150! I'm struggling to get past 3...

@Sentay0 Год назад

150 relationships? I think I know like 20-30 people total (and most of those are not that deep) this doesn't seem temporally possible unless your friends are in turn introducing you to friend groups who in turn introduce you to friend groups etc etc.

@Reaperofsouls99 Год назад

Everyone is unique, if I didn't work in a social setting my number would be around 25. And I'm sure there are people who know 250. 150 is the average person.

@Shahina456 Год назад

I agree. Also for people with disabilities that cannot work and don’t have families, and older people who have lost people along the way through death, moving etc or don’t have children or they do but not close by etc…. it is harder. And people are so consumed with work children family and people they known for a long time etc … it is much harder to find friends who have time energy or interest to invest in new people

@Izzy-qf1do Год назад

Sounds about right. Every few years the inner circles change places in my case.

@divinejusticefeelsgood Год назад

I dont know about you guys but to me it appears like friendships have expiry date on them. It tends to fade away without any particular reason.

@Shahina456 Год назад

I think it is a very disposable society now. And people have shorter attention spans. Less inclination toward commitment to friends and relationships

@spiralpython1989 Год назад

I am very much an introvert, but the circles do line up for me. My household, then the people I have known for decades, the people I work with, and regularly interact with in a ‘social’ setting, followed by the hairdresser, the vet, the dog groomer, the regular staff at the bakery, the bank, the medical centre, the library… and then a venn diagram of the circles in my children’s world; school friends, teachers, clubs….

@dylannewton76 Год назад

One, comfortably. And it usually involves a mirror

@nevnuance3480 Год назад

What's their name? ;)

@aliali-ce3yf Год назад

150 "meaningful" relationships seems high. i could understand 150 including mostly acquaintances.

@marquee_tags Год назад

The 150 thing is often oversimplified by calling it 150 "friends" but that's not how Dunbar explains it. He explains it as, 150 people who if you ran into them in an airport lounge in the middle of the night, you'd stop and chat 😂 You know who they are, you know what their relation to you is, and maybe know a little bit about their life (not necessarily first hand). In that sense I reckon it checks out, but it's all a bit of fun pop psychology anyway

@glenwillson5073 Год назад

5 - sounds about as many as I could handle but I like to do nothing with nobody.

@feelincrispy7053 Год назад

Yep this checks out

@littlevoice_11 Год назад

150?? I don't even have that many followers on social media!! Even the 50 people for a party is a huge stretch to reality. Maybe I'm not normal?

@Shahina456 Год назад

I think you are normal. She is referring to town ir village sizes - but most of us don’t live in a town or village environment . Cities are less inclined to tight communities if that size either. Recent studies have shown the number of people that individuals feel they could turn to the could trust was very low - lowest it has ever been (2). And highest number of people who don’t have any than there’s ever been. And there is a worldwide loneliness epidemic because of it. I am disabled so I am isolated. Many societies are having these same trends. I think it is ethnic groups that have highest numbers e.g. Indian, Italian, Greek, Lebanese etc - they have bigger families, extended families and communities