A suggested cognitivelimit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stablesocialrelationships. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150.
Origin
Proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.
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