<story><title>Why are conversations limited to about four people?</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513818301491</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Because otherwise you have to wait too long for your turn to speak, and you start whispering to the person next to you.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why are conversations limited to about four people?</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513818301491</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephengillie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always preferred groups of 2-6 people. Many board games are made for groups of this size.&lt;p&gt;On one side, humans can mentally cope with 4-6 objects at most - as though we have 4-6 memory slots, which is reasonable given that we have 4 limbs.&lt;p&gt;On another side, network effects of nodes on a grid become unmanageable above about 6 nodes - a group of 6 people will have 36 one-on-one interpersonal relationships to manage.</text></comment>