KIYOKAWA, Y. and HENNESSY, M.B. Comparative studies of social buffering: A consideration of approaches, terminology, and pitfalls…NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV XXX–XXX, .- Over the past decades, there has been an increasing number of investigations of the impact of social variables on neural, endocrine, and immune outcomes. Among these are studies of “social buffering”—or the phenomenon by which affiliative social partners mitigate the response to stressors. Yet, as social buffering studies have become more commonplace, the variety of approaches taken, definitions employed, and divergent results obtained in different species can lead to confusion and miscommunication. The aim of the present paper, therefore, is to address terminology and approaches and to highlight potential pitfalls to the study of social buffering across nonhuman species. We review and categorize variables currently being employed in social buffering studies and provide an overview of responses measured, mediating sensory modalities and underlying mechanisms. It is our hope that the paper will be useful to those contemplating examination of social buffering in the context of their own research.

Y. KIYOKAWA和HENNESSY，MB社会缓冲的比较研究：方法，术语和陷阱的考虑……NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV XXX-XXX，.-在过去的几十年中，对有关神经，内分泌和免疫结果的社会变量。在这些研究中，有“社会缓冲”的研究，即有联系的社会伙伴减轻对压力源的反应的现象。然而，随着社会缓冲研究变得越来越普遍，在不同物种中采取的方法，所采用的定义以及所获得的不同结果可能导致混乱和误解。因此，本文的目的是解决术语和方法，并强调研究跨非人类物种的社会缓冲的潜在陷阱。我们审查和分类目前在社会缓冲研究中使用的变量，并提供了对所测得的反应的概述，介导了感觉方式和潜在机制。我们希望本文对那些考虑在自己的研究背景下研究社会缓冲的人们有所帮助。