Yielding to social presence as a bioenergetic strategy.

ABSTRACT: All life must strategically conserve and allocate resources in order to meet the challenges of living. Social Baseline Theory suggests that, for humans, social context and the social resources therein are a central ecology in human phylogeny. In ontogeny, this manifests in flexible bioenergetic strategies that vary in the population based on social history. We introduce yielding, a conservation process wherein we relax physiological investment in response to a challenge when in the presence of a relational partner. The availability of these conserved resources then impact response to subsequent challenges while alone and if this pattern is habitual, it can reciprocally influence strategies used to solve or cope with typical stress. We discuss neural targets of this resource conservation an

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8851505 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature