Many of us measure our friendships by depth or quantity: Do I have enough close friends? Are they texting me back? Do they like me? But having spent the last 15 years studying happiness, I've learned ...

There are a lot of different ways we try to classify ourselves. Everybody wants to fit into a group and feel like they belong. One way to do this is to describe the type of friend you are through your ...

Several years ago, my then-colleague Barry Chung offered to nominate me for an honor in our professional organization. There was one problem: I didn’t think I qualified. I tried to decline. Our ...

Robin Dunbar is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oxford, a renowned evolutionary psychologist and author of Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships.

Some are always available with advice. Others are experts at spending money they may or may not have. Then there's the friend who vanishes for weeks, only to reappear with a random "Hey, stranger" ...

No matter how much everyone in a friend group wants to hang out, turning ideas into real plans can become a real challenge. Suggestions get tossed around, availability is loosely discussed, yet ...

These friends give you solid advice, grounded in emotional intelligence and clear statements. When you have a friend you go to whenever you need help going through a situation or want to hear a solid ...

Molly Burford, author of Moments to Hold Close, writes list poetry (is that a thing?) about the kinds of people that you want in your life. From Types Of People ...