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Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar (Hardcover, 2021)

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"Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships" by Robin Dunbar is a new hardback textbook published in 2021. This book delves into the psychology of relationships, exploring the complexities and benefits of forming and maintaining friendships. Written in English and published by Little, Brown Book Group, it is a 432-page publication that offers insights into the nature of human connections and the impact they have on our lives. With a height of 236mm and a weight of 680g, this book is a valuable resource for those interested in understanding the power of relationships in our lives.

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'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the friendships we have has a bigger influence on our happiness, health and even mortality risk than anything else except giving up smoking. Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is. Mixing insights from scientific research with first person experiences and culture, Friends explores and integrates knowledge from disciplines ranging from psychology and anthropology to neuroscience and genetics in a single magical weave that allows us to peer into the incredible complexity of the social world in which we are all so deeply embedded. Working at the coalface of the subject at both research and personal levels, Robin Dunbar has written the definitive book on how and why we are friends.