Perspective Taking and Memory Capacity Predict Social Network Size
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- Authors
- Stiller, J., & Dunbar, R. I. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Dunbar, R.I.M.
- Venue
- Social Networks
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-01
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93-104
- ISSN
- 0378-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1963720370
- Cited by
- 429
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 10.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Networks (publishedVersion)
- Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) (submittedVersion)
- Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- social network size, perspective taking, memory capacity, theory of mind, social cognition, mentalization, individual differences, friendship networks, social partners
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