Robin Dunbar
The human cognitive limit for stable social relationships is approximately 150 — "Dunbar's number". social media has not raised Dunbar's number.
The human cognitive limit for stable social relationships is approximately 150 — "Dunbar's number"
social media has not raised Dunbar's number
the human cognitive limit for stable social relationships is approximately 150
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
Dunbar's number has been validated across hunter-gatherer band sizes, military units, Hutterite communities, Christmas-card lists, telephone-calling networks, Facebook friend-graphs, and online gaming clans
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
Digital tools do not raise the ceiling of stable social group size
The Dunbar number is approximately 150
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"Combining McLuhan's identity-thesis with Dunbar's social-brain model and contemporary research on group polarisation would produce a more rigorous theory."