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‘I’m a Friendship Expert, This Is How Many Friends You Need’

Source: Newsweek

What’s the best number of friends for a person to have? Click this link to hear from a professor whose research explores this very question.

This entry was posted in Finding Common Ground, Ourselves and Others, The Individual and Society and tagged Health & Medicine, People on January 1, 2026 by Chandler Gifford.

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