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Perspective-taking and memory capacity predict social network size
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Human social networks typically consist of a hierarchically organized series of grouping levels. There is, however, considerable variation between individuals in the sizes of any given network layer. We test between two possible factors (memory capacity and theory of mind) that might limit the size of two different levels within human social networks (support cliques and sympathy groups). We show that the size of an individual's support clique (the number of individual's in the innermost circ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Networks Journal website
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 93-104
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
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- ISSN:
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0378-8733
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- English
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- ora:3186
- Deposit date:
- 2010-01-06
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- Elsevier B V
- Copyright date:
- 2006
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- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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