And Podcast. Friendships are a central part of the lives of both men and women.

But from personal observation, you probably notice the dynamics of male and female friendships aren't always the same.

You may not, however, have been able to articulate what those differences are or have known what's behind them.

While there's still a lot of facets of friendship that haven't yet been researched, Dr. Jamie Krimms, who runs

UCLA's Social Minds Lab has a lot of interesting insights about what we do know about how and why men and women

approach friendship differently.

Taylor's show, she explains why men and women form friendships and the differences in the

size and nature of their social circles, how long their friendships last, and what they look for in friends.

We also discuss why men have a greater tolerance for their friends' flaws that women do, why men

and women would want to be friends with each other, and how each sex experiences friendship jealousy.

After the show.

Thank you for having me. All right, Jamie Krims, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

So you are a social psychologist who researches friendship,

but you do it through an evolutionary lens.

How did you end up doing what you do? Well I studied classical

archaeology and translated Latin it was like solving a puzzle, thought that was cool,

book bands, played poker, living in Philly, and then I let myself get bored and found books by Stephen Pinker.

And I thought, oh my God, I'm not alone, other people think about the world and the mind like this and I

came to evolutionary psychology worked in Rob Currsbans lab at Penn Robin Dunbar's Lab at Oxford, and Newburgh and Kenwicks at ASU.

And I thought, this is the way to make the world make sense.

As for what I study, it's in part because two of my best

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