====== Dunbar's number ======
**Dunbar's number** is [[Robin Dunbar]]'s proposed approximate limit to stable [[human]] social relationships, perhaps due to [[brain]] size.

===== Dunbar hacking =====
Presuming that Dunbar's number means that a person also likely only has room for a couple of people able to occupy specific domains.

For example, people may only be able to place trust in so many experts in a specific domain.

**Dunbar Hacking** is when an entity leverages this against people by replacing vital local resources with manufactured //parasocial relationships//.

===== Research =====
  * May 5, 2021 ([[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0158#:~:text='Dunbar's%20number'%20is%20the%20notion,other%20individuals%20in%20the%20group.|Lindenfors in Biology Letters]]) 'Dunbar's number' deconstructed
    * Good summary of research.
    * The size of the [[brain]] itself or just the [[neocortex]] may drive limitations.