Social baseline theory (SBT) maintains that the primary human ecology is a social ecology. Because of this fact, the theory predicts that humans will find it easier and less energetically taxing to regulate emotion and act when in proximity to familiar and predictable others. This article reviews new empirical and theoretical work related to SBT and highlights areas of needed research. Among these exciting developments are investigations of the neural mechanisms of social emotion regulation, the creation of a model of social allostasis, and work investigating at the impact of social proximity in real-world contexts. SBT continues to accrue support and inspire new theoretical and empirical contributions.

社会基线理论（SBT）认为，人类的基本生态是社会生态。由于这一事实，该理论预测，当与熟悉且可预测的其他人接近时，人类会发现调节情绪和采取行动更容易，也更省力。本文回顾了与 SBT 相关的新的实证和理论工作，并强调了需要研究的领域。在这些令人兴奋的发展中，包括对社会情绪调节的神经机制的研究、社会平衡模型的创建以及研究社会接近度在现实世界环境中的影响的工作。SBT 继续获得支持并激发新的理论和经验贡献。