Social baseline theory: state of the science and new directions

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Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat

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Embodied Perception and the Economy of Action

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Social: why our brains are wired to connect

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Explicit and implicit emotion regulation: a multi-level framework

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Social baseline theory: The role of social proximity in emotion and economy of action

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Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experience

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Social baseline theory: the social regulation of risk and effort

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Early social experience is critical for the development of cognitive control and dopamine modulation of prefrontal cortex function

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Why do we fall into sync with others? Interpersonal synchronization and the brain’s optimization principle

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A theory of social thermoregulation in human primates

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Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural responses to threat

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The social buffering of pain by affective touch: a laser-evoked potential study in romantic couples

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Brain mechanisms of social touch-induced analgesia in females

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Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat

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Social Allostasis and Social Allostatic Load: A New Model for Research in Social Dynamics, Stress, and Health

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Hand-in-Hand Combat: Affectionate Touch Promotes Relational Well-Being and Buffers Stress During Conflict

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Felt Understanding and Misunderstanding Affect the Perception of Pain, Slant, and Distance

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Helping Others, Warming Yourself: Altruistic Behaviors Increase Warmth Feelings of the Ambient Environment

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Cognitive Processes Unfold in a Social Context: A Review and Extension of Social Baseline Theory

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Mom—It Helps When You're Right Here! Attenuation of Neural Stress Markers in Anxious Youths Whose Caregivers Are Present during fMRI

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The world looks better together: How close others enhance our visual experiences

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Cortisol covariation within parents of young children: Moderation by relationship aggression

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Sharing the burden: The interpersonal regulation of emotional arousal in mother−daughter dyads.

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Interpersonal touch as a resource to facilitate positive personal and relational outcomes during stress discussions

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The impact of physical proximity and attachment working models on cardiovascular reactivity: Comparing mental activation and romantic partner presence

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Sleep–Wake Concordance in Couples Is Inversely Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Markers

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HPA axis linkage in parent–child dyads: Effects of parent sex, autism spectrum diagnosis, and dyadic relationship behavior

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Effects of Social Exclusion on Cardiovascular and Affective Reactivity to a Socially Evaluative Stressor

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The Quality of Spouses’ Social Networks Contributes to Each Other’s Cardiovascular Risk

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Concurrent and longitudinal associations of peers’ acceptance with emotion and effortful control in kindergarten

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Your presence soothes me: a neural process model of aversive emotion regulation via social buffering

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The comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain

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Neural signatures of child cognitive emotion regulation are bolstered by parental social regulation in two cultures

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Romantic partner presence and physiological responses in daily life: Attachment style as a moderator

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The economy of social resources and its influence on spatial perceptions

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The Unburdening Effects of Forgiveness

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Associations between amygdala reactivity to social threat, perceived stress and C-reactive protein in breast cancer survivors

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Subjective General Health and the Social Regulation of Hypothalamic Activity

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The effect of social cohesion and social networks on perceptions of food availability among low-income consumers

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The power of touch: external applications from whole medical systems in the care of cancer patients (literature review)

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Socially thermoregulated thinking: How past experiences matter in thinking about our loved ones

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Arousal transmission and attenuation in mother–daughter dyads during adolescence

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The social regulation of emotion: Inconsistencies suggest no mediation through ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Beckes, L., Medina-DeVilliers, S., & Coan, J. A. (2020) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470919.2020.1767686 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Yielding to social presence as a bioenergetic strategy: Preliminary evidence using fMRI

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The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making

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Impact of family-centered care in families with children with intellectual disability: A systematic review

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Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Biobehavioural Synchrony in Musculoskeletal Care

McParlin, Z., Cerritelli, F., Rossettini, G., Friston, K. J., & Esteves, J. E. (2022) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2022.897247 · Cited by 42 · see citing works

A healthy lifestyle is a social lifestyle: The vital link between social connection and health outcomes

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Ostracism and Problematic Smartphone Use: the Mediating Effect of Social Self-Efficacy and Moderating Effect of Rejection Sensitivity

Sun, X., Yamei, Z., Niu, G., Tian, Y., Xu, L., & Duan, C. (2021) · International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction · doi:10.1007/s11469-021-00661-5 · Cited by 28 · see citing works

Adolescent digital emotion regulation

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Emotion regulation mediates the relationship between social frailty and stress, anxiety, and depression

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The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy makingPreprint

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How to Improve Others’ Emotions: Reappraise and be Responsive

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The Longevity Protein Klotho: A Promising Tool to Monitor Lifestyle Improvements

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With a little help from my friends: Social support, hope and climate change engagement

Geiger, N., Swim, J. K., & Fraser, J. (2024) · British Journal of Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjso.12837 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

The effects of parental presence on amygdala and mPFC activation during fear conditioning: An exploratory study

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Therapeutic touch and therapeutic alliance in pediatric care and neonatology: An active inference framework

McParlin, Z., Cerritelli, F., Manzotti, A., Friston, K. J., & Esteves, J. E. (2023) · Frontiers in Pediatrics · doi:10.3389/fped.2023.961075 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Socioeconomic Inequalities and Policy MakingPreprint

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A Theoretical Framework for Studying the Phenomenon of Gaslighting

Klein, W., Wood, S. C., & Bartz, J. A. (2025) · Personality and Social Psychology Review · doi:10.1177/10888683251342291 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

The value of empathy in medical practice: A neurobehavioral perspective

Jean Decety, A., & Li, J. (2025) · Social Sciences & Humanities Open · doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101956 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Feeling grateful to be optimistic: The influence of recalling special moments on feelings of gratitude and optimism during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Puente-Díaz, R., & Cavazos-Arroyo, J. (2022) · International Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1002/ijop.12830 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy

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Social anxiety influences the stress-buffering potential of social presence: Evidence from cardiovascular and affective reactivity under stress

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Constructing an empathy education system: Values, principles, and approaches

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A Study of Brain Function Characteristics of Service Members at High Risk for Accidents in the Military

Choi, S.-O., Choi, J.-G., & Yun, J.-Y. (2023) · Brain Sciences · doi:10.3390/brainsci13081157 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network

Xie, X., Bertram, T., Zorjan, S., Horvat, M., Sorg, C., & Bratec, S. M. (2023) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1128916 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Merging in Close Relationships

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Community as an opportunity: how online social support seeking as a response to daily demands facilitates gig workers’ engagement and performance

Schweitzer, V. M., Rivkin, W., & Gerpott, F. H. (2026) · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1080/1359432x.2026.2630894 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Profiles of context-based negative interpretive bias and the association with depressive symptoms in adolescence: Exploring the role of interpersonal emotion regulation

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2024) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112841 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Stability and variation of brain-behavior correlation patterns across measures of social support

Merritt, H., Faskowitz, J., Gonzalez, M. Z., & Betzel, R. F. (2024) · Imaging Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/imag_a_00133 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Information, Entanglement, and Emergent Social Norms: Searching for ‘Normal’

Cardinal, J. S., & Loughmiller-Cardinal, J. (2024) · Societies · doi:10.3390/soc14110227 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Social ‘envirotyping’ the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes

Merritt, H., Koch, M. K., Jo, Y., Chumin, E. J., & Betzel, R. F. (2026) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsag005 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Associations of insecure adult attachment style, trauma-related social cognition, and emotion regulation difficulties with PTSD symptom severity among first responders who served during Hurricane Harvey

Leonard, S. J., Venta, A. C., Derrick, J. L., Anderson-Fletcher, E. A., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2025) · Cognitive Behaviour Therapy · doi:10.1080/16506073.2025.2540922 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Bidirectional transitions of frailty states in middle-aged and older adults: Findings from two longitudinal cohorts studies

Wang, S., Wang, L., Wang, Y., Su, X., Zhang, F., Zong, S., Qi, L., Jiang, Y., He, J., & Li, X. (2025) · Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics · doi:10.1016/j.archger.2025.106085 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Influence of teacher-student closeness on interpersonal emotion regulation in graduate students: Evidence from behavioral and hyper-scanning studies

Sun, W., Liu, X., Ding, S., He, D., Wu, Q., & Li, S. (2026) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121779 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Physical Proximity With Social Support Regulates Vigilance to Threat: Evidence From Startle Reactivity During Emotional Stress Induction

Maffei, A., Cristaldi, F. D. P., Tecchio, A., Blumenthal, T. D., & Sessa, P. (2026) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/psyp.70259 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Patterns of Ongoing Thought Are Associated With Emotion Regulation and Negative Affect in Daily Life

Wang, R., Bas, L. M., Janet, R., Smallwood, J., Xu, Y., Morawetz, C., & Tusche, A. (2026) · Affective Science · doi:10.1007/s42761-026-00355-y · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Stability of brain-behavior correlation patterns across measures of social supportPreprint

Merritt, H., Faskowitz, J., Gonzalez, M. Z., & Betzel, R. F. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.03.23.533966 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Cost-benefits analysis of joint actions; children and adults estimate the potential effort of acting together.Preprint

Speranza, T. B., & Ramenzoni, V. C. (2023) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/scyax

Burdening the Predictive Mind: A Predictive Processing Approach to Health-Related BurdensPreprint

Smart, P. R., Fair, N., Fraser, S. D., & Boniface, M. (2024) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/h8scp

Effects of Teacher-Student Familiarity and Facial Synchrony on Student Learning in Online Face-to-Face InteractionsPreprint

Friedman, J., Sonay, T. B., Brown, A., McBurney, A., Cummings, K.-P., & Black, J. (2024) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5002708

The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation

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Cost-benefits analysis of social interactions: Familiarity modulates the estimation of individual contributions to joint action

Speranza, T. B., & Ramenzoni, V. C. (2025) · Acta Psychologica · doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105035

Nonhierarchical, Multidirectional, and Oscillatory Processing in Neuroscience-Informed Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Field, T. A., Miller, R., Martin, G. C., Manjarrez, A., & Beeson, E. T. (2025) · Journal of Mental Health Counseling · doi:10.17744/mehc.47.3.05

Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self

Berrett, T. (2025) · New Ideas in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101182

Resilience Skill-Building with College Students from Migrant Farmworker Backgrounds: A Single-Case Study

Dickinson, R., Miller, R., Brown, C. L., Russo, G. M., & Knowles, E. (2025) · Single Case in the Social Sciences · doi:10.15763/issn.1936-9298.2025.2.3.15-39 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Social context links energetic and developmental accounts of life history

Gonzalez, M. Z., & Lee, M. (2025) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x25100897

Bots into the Fediverse

Moreno, F., Perdomo-Quinteiro, P., Hernández-Peñaloza, G., Álvarez, F., Belmonte-Hernández, A., & Barbero-Álvarez, M. A. (2026) · Social Network Analysis and Mining · doi:10.1007/s13278-025-01567-z

The individual and dyadic roles of neuroticism and conscientiousness in cardiac autonomic functioning of patients with cancer and their spousal caregivers

Tsai, T. C., Segerstrom, S. C., Ginty, A. T., Carver, C. S., & Kim, Y. (2026) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109207

“Close to the teacher, believe in the teaching”: the advantageous effect of interpersonal emotion regulation and the role of teacher-student closeness

Sun, W., Liu, X., Ding, S., He, D., Wu, Q., & Li, S. (2026) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1745339

Parental alienation as conditioned love

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Relationships and Physical Health

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When grief alters social self: Assessing social disconnection in Chinese bereaved individuals

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