The costs of family and friends: an 18-month longitudinal study of relationship maintenance and decay
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Creating and maintaining personal relationships requires sufficient time investment, but finite time budgets place a limit on the number of personal relationships that an individual can maintain through one-on-one interactions.
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- Authors
- Roberts, S. G. B., & Dunbar, R. I. M.
- Affiliations
- British Academy (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Roberts, Sam G.B.
- Venue
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-05
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 186-197
- ISSN
- 1090-5138 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1981554624
- Cited by
- 197
- References
- 86
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- FWCI
- 7.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Evolution and Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Keywords
- kinship, friendship, relationship maintenance, maintenance costs, contact frequency, emotional intensity, transition to college
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