Women favour dyadic relationships, but men prefer clubs: cross-cultural evidence from social networking.

The ability to create lasting, trust-based friendships makes it possible for humans to form large and coherent groups. The recent literature on the evolution of sociality and on the network dynamics of human societies suggests that large human groups have a layered structure generated by emotionally...

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Main Authors: Tamas David-Barrett, Anna Rotkirch, James Carney, Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Jaimie A Krems, Dylan Townley, Elinor McDaniell, Anna Byrne-Smith, Robin I M Dunbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4361571?pdf=render