"social affiliation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase can be used to refer to a group or organization that one is associated with, either personally or professionally. For example: "I am proud of my social affiliation with the local historical society."
Such behavior also seems adaptive: While the fearful person distrusts strangers, the socially excluded person is, as a social being, likely to be seeking social affiliation and therefore would tend to find positive impressions of strangers more memorable.
Oxytocin mediates social affiliation behaviors and social memory in rodents.
Testosterone did not affect approach avoidance tendencies to social affiliation (happy) faces.
Positive social cues, like happy facial expressions, activate the brain's reward system and indicate interest in social affiliation.
The runway test revealed a stronger social affiliation in junglefowl when the social contact had first been reinstated.
Studies have linked oxytocin, which is also produced during childbirth and nursing, both with maternal behavior and with social affiliation.
Oxytocin (OXT) and prolactin (PRL) are neuropeptide hormones that interact with the serotonin system and are involved in the stress response and social affiliation.
Emiliana's work spotlights the science that connects health and happiness to social affiliation, caregiving, and collaborative relationships.
TEmilina's work spotlights the science that connects health and happiness to social affiliation, caregiving, and collaborative relationships.
The CMH statistic controls for any change in behavior observed from trial 1 to trial 2. Social-affiliation decreased in sympatric versus allopatric trials in N. bryanti (χ cmh 2 = 17.1, P < 0.001) but not in N. lepida (χ cmh 2 = 0.1, P = 0.765; Figure 2A).
For example, when meditation "experts" watched videos of other people suffering, functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) scans of their brains showed heightened activity primarily in structures that are important to care, nurturance, and positive social affiliation that is, brain regions that orient them toward the well-being of other people.
