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Friends Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

Name: Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Author: Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar

'Fascinating... Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the friendships we have has a bigger influence on our happiness, health and even morta...

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Modern Wisdom

The book was cited as containing a study on how men and women position themselves when talking, noting that men typically stand at an open angle while women face each other directly.

Did you see in Friends by Robin Dunbar, there was a study done on the angle that men stand facing each other and that women stand facing each other?

— Episode: #553 - Dr Jaimie Krems - The Evolutionar...

Episode: #553 - Dr Jaimie Krems - The Evolutionary Psycholo...

The book was cited as containing a study on how men and women position themselves when talking, noting that men typically stand at an open angle while women face each other directly.

Did you see in Friends by Robin Dunbar, there was a study done on the angle that men stand facing each other and that women stand facing each other?

No, I read that book too.

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

This was mentioned as the latest book by Professor Dunbar, which pulled together all of his work on relationships.

The one that's just come out which kind of puts all of this stuff together it's called friends understanding the power of our most important relationships

— Episode: The Science of Making and Keeping Friend...

Episode: The Science of Making and Keeping Friends | Robin...