Journal article
Cognitive resource allocation determines the organization of personal networks
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The typical human personal social network contains about 150 relationships including kin, friends, and acquaintances, organized into a set of hierarchically inclusive layers of increasing size but decreasing emotional intensity. Data from a number of different sources reveal that these inclusive layers exhibit a constant scaling ratio of [Formula: see text] While the overall size of the networks has been connected to our cognitive capacity, no mechanism explaining why the networks present a l...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness
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BBVA Foundation
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European Regional Development Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 115
- Issue:
- 33
- Pages:
- 8316-8321
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-04-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1091-6490
- ISSN:
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0027-8424
- Pmid:
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30049707
- Source identifiers:
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905060
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:905060
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-04
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- Tamarit et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.
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