9-13 George St
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2AU
UK
Psychologist in the Pub events are completely free and open to everyone, so please join us on:
Tuesday 15th March, 6:30 for 7pm start, with Professor Robin Dunbar talking online friendships.
Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. His principal research interests focus on the evolution of sociality (with particular reference to primates and humans). He is best known for the social brain hypothesis, the gossip theory of language evolution and Dunbar’s Number (the limit on the number of relationships that we can manage).
His popular science books include Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, The Human Story, How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks and The Science of Love and Betrayal.
The talk will be held in the function room in Wig & Pen pub
The venue is wheelchair accessible.