Social buffering: relief from stress and anxiety
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Social buffering: relief from stress and anxiety.
Communication is essential to members of a society not only for the expression of personal information, but also for the protection from environmental threats. Highly social mammals have a distinct characteristic: when conspecific animals are together, they show a better recovery from experiences of distress. This phenomenon, termed 'social buffering', has been found in rodents, birds, non-huma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1941