2024-06-24
55 分钟What are you doing right now?
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
Im head of programming Connor Boyle coming up, the anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar.
He will be discussing how we can become better at forming meaningful bonds, especially in situations such as the workplace and beyond.
Our host for this conversation is Sophie McBain, who is contributing editor at the New Statesman magazine and writes about books and ideas for the Guardian and the Sunday Times.
Lets join Sophie now with more the.
Anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar is emeritus professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University.
Hes also part of a small club of academics who whose work has become part of the modern public discourse.
Dunbar is the thinker behind Dunbar's number the idea that humans can only meaningfully maintain around 150 social relationships at a time in the social media and hybrid working age.
His work has helped us better understand how our friendships and our online networks operate.
His latest book, co authored with Oxford University colleagues Samantha Rocky and Tracy Chamiglieri from said business school, the social brain the psychology of successful groups.
The book explores how we can apply our scientific knowledge of how people form and maintain relationships to build better, happier and more creative teams.