How Many Friends Do You Really Need?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 6, 2011

Many people have hundreds, if not thousands of 'friends' on social networks like Facebook. But do they all really count? Robin Dunbar, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and author of How Many Friends Does One Person Need?, discusses the theory of Dunbar's Number, which states that the maximum number of stable relationships one person can have is 150.

WNYC is funded by sponsors and member donations

WNYC Homepage - Top Stories

Manhattan's 42nd Street to be bus-only on World Cup match days

The city released its plans for managing Midtown traffic during eight matches.
Gothamist |

NYS Finally Has a Budget

Albany lawmakers finally passed the state budget, eight weeks late.
The Brian Lehrer Show |

A Russian Phrasebook for Surviving Authoritarianism

From apparatchik to samizdat, Russians have lots of words for describing life under an oppressive government.
On the Media |

The Essential Sonny Rollins

All Of It with Alison Stewart |
YOU ARE ONLINE