Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions.

ABSTRACT: Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human health and behavior. Although theoretically rich, this work has yielded little consensus and led to numerous conceptual, measurement, and reproducibility issues. Social Safety Theory aims to address these issues by using the primary goal and regulatory logic of the human brain and immune system as the basis for specifying the social-environmental situations to which these systems should respond most strongly to maximize reproductive success and survival. This analysis gave rise to the integrated, multi-level formulation described herein, which transforms thinking about stress biology and provides a biologically base

SUBMITTER: Slavich GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161928 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature