The anatomy of friendship

RIM Dunbar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018‏ - cell.com
Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well-being, and
happiness. Creating and maintaining friendships is, however, extremely costly, in terms of …

Neural mechanisms of social homeostasis

GA Matthews, KM Tye - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Social connections are vital to survival throughout the animal kingdom and are dynamic
across the life span. There are debilitating consequences of social isolation and loneliness …

[HTML][HTML] The neurobiology of social distance

D Bzdok, RIM Dunbar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020‏ - cell.com
Never before have we experienced social isolation on such a massive scale as we have in
response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, we know that the social …

Linking sociality to fitness in primates: a call for mechanisms

J Ostner, O Schülke - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Within-group variation in sociality has been linked to correlates of fitness across vertebrates.
Individuals that form strong social bonds with a few partners, or are well integrated into a …

Deconstructing sociality: the types of social connections that predict longevity in a group-living primate

S Ellis, N Snyder-Mackler… - … of the Royal …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many species use social interactions to cope with challenges in their environment and a
growing number of studies show that individuals which are well-connected to their group …

Social ageing: exploring the drivers of late-life changes in social behaviour in mammals

ER Siracusa, JP Higham… - Biology …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social interactions help group-living organisms cope with socio-environmental challenges
and are central to survival and reproductive success. Recent research has shown that social …

Structure and function in human and primate social networks: Implications for diffusion, network stability and health

RIM Dunbar - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The human social world is orders of magnitude smaller than our highly urbanized world
might lead us to suppose. In addition, human social networks have a very distinct fractal …

Within-individual changes reveal increasing social selectivity with age in rhesus macaques

ER Siracusa, JE Negron-Del Valle, D Phillips… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Accumulating evidence in humans and other mammals suggests older individuals tend to
have smaller social networks. Uncovering the cause of these declines can inform how …

[PDF][PDF] Network measures in animal social network analysis: Their strengths, limits, interpretations and uses

S Sosa, C Sueur, I Puga-Gonzalez - 2020‏ - uia.brage.unit.no
32 For those unfamiliar with Social Network Analysis (SNA) terminology (highlighted in the
text with 33 asterisks), we provide a glossary in Table. 1. The mathematical formula of all the …

The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene

EB Cooper, LJN Brent, N Snyder-Mackler, M Singh… - Elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
Of all the non-human primate species studied by researchers, the rhesus macaque (Macaca
mulatta) is likely the most widely used across biological disciplines. Rhesus macaques have …