How to make friendship work. A conversation with Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar is an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who has written extensively about friendship, amongst other things, not least in relation to “Dunbar’s Number”.We talked about what friendship is, and how it differs from other loves. We explored the varieties of friendship that people experience, and why metaphors such as “circles of friends” are so significant.Numbers are illuminating when it comes to understanding the dynamics of friendship, not only Dunbar’s Number, but also other thresh...