Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation
In my post about the Dunbar Number I offered some evidence on the levels of satisfaction of various group sizes based on some empirical data from online games. There I was able to show that even though the Dunbar Number might predict a mean group size of 150 for humans, that in fact for non-survival oriented groups the mean was significantly less, probably between 60 to 90.
I also offered a second hypothesis, that there is a dip in satisfaction level of groups at around the size of 15.