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The nature of friendship
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English - April 07, 2021 09:00 - 11 minutes - 25.8 MBSociety & Culture Arts history politics philosophy economics history of art psychology sociology law humanities social sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What is it to be friends with someone? Why do we have friends? What do they do for us? In this talk, Robin Dunbar provides evidence that friendships are good for us, the relationship between the number and quality of close friendships and our psychological and physical health, and on what basis we select our friends.
His book, Friends. Understanding the power of our most important relationships was published in March 2021.
Speaker: Professor Robin Dunbar FBA, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford