News Finding: Some of the most intense friendships I've had to date were during the few years that I lived in an isolated village in rural Alaska.
Paper Finding: Which option an individual opts for may depend on his or her personality [introverts opting for smaller networks ] or on the size of the community he or she happens to be a member of (as seems to be the case here with the immigrant communities where opportunities for social A B C D interaction seem to be restricted to a small number of individuals by social exclusion).
News Context: This is a notion the researchers point out that I can vouch for from personal experience. Some of the most intense friendships I've had to date were during the few years that I lived in an isolated village in rural Alaska. I doubt that I was interacting with over 100 people on a regular basis, but there were at least ten people there that were like family to me at the time.
Paper Context: These inverse structure networks are associated with smaller than usual networks and seem to imply that individuals have a (more or less) fixed quantity of cognitive capital (indexed as time available for investing in alters) which they can spread either thinly among many alters or thickly among fewer alters. Which option an individual opts for may depend on his or her personality [introverts opting for smaller networks ] or on the size of the community he or she happens to be a member of (as seems to be the case here with the immigrant communities where opportunities for social A B C D interaction seem to be restricted to a small number of individuals by social exclusion). Note that all distributions ( Fig.