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social safety theory: a standalone construct

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Psychoneuroimmunology

a theory holding that humans evolved to build and keep safe social bonds, so social threats strongly activate inflammatory and stress biology that harms health.

In psychoneuroimmunology, social safety theory refers to a theory holding that humans evolved to build and keep safe social bonds, so social threats strongly activate inflammatory and stress biology that harms health. This meaning comes from Slavich (2020) in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.[1]

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  1. Slavich, G. M. (2020). Social Safety Theory: A Biologically Based Evolutionary Perspective on Life Stress, Health, and Behavior. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 16(1), 265-295. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032816-045159

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