Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are ...

Friendships help combat the adverse health effects of loneliness like depression and poor sleep and can lead to a happier, ...

WH's sex agony aunt, Dr Tara, responds to a reader who wants to take a relationship to the next level without ruining their friendship Welcome to Sexplore with Dr Tara, a monthly column in which the ...

Not every woman is looking for a live-in partner or a time-consuming romance. Sometimes you want to keep it light. Hook-up sex might not be for you, for safety or because men tend to be less generous ...

The consistency, depth, and persistence of these connections across several decades of life “matter profoundly” for health, ...

British evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has maintained for more than three decades that humans cannot maintain a social network beyond 150 people. This famous threshold—known as Dunbar’s Number ...