Psychologists told how many friends can be in humans.
sledovateli from the University of Sydney in Australia established the average number of true friends that man can have. It turned out that a person can have no more than 5 close friends.
The authors analysed ancient communities of hunter-gatherers, and then compared them with modern communities. It turned out that in General, in society, people can have friends of 132 people. But not all of this number can be called a close friend, because most of it is just work colleagues, friends of friends or good friends. But best friends can be an average of no more than five.
Scientists attribute this to the fact that only 5 people can have a common type of emotional attachment. And over time, those 5 people and provide liaison with other 132 th members of the group. Essentially this translates into the rule of “six degrees of separation” where he is the sixth winner of five friends.
