A new goal-systems model is proposed to help explain when individuals will protect themselves against the risks inherent to social connection. This model assumes that people satisfy the goal to feel included in safe social connections-connections where they are valued and protected rather than at risk of being harmed-by devaluing rejecting friends, trusting in expectancy-consistent relationships, and avoiding infectious strangers. In the hypothesized goal system, frustrating the fundamental goal to feel safe in social connection sensitizes regulatory systems that afford safety from the risk of being interpersonally rejected (i.e., the risk-regulation system), existentially uncertain (i.e., the social-safety system), or physically infected (i.e., the behavioral-immune system). Conversely, fulfilling the fundamental goal to feel safe in social connection desensitizes these self-protective systems. A 3-week experimental daily diary study (N = 555) tested the model hypotheses. We intervened to fulfill the goal to feel safe in social connection by repeatedly conditioning experimental participants to associate their romantic partners with highly positive, approachable words and images. We then tracked how vigilantly experimental versus control participants protected themselves when they encountered social rejection, unexpected behavior, or contagious illness in everyday life. Multilevel analyses revealed that the intervention lessoned self-protective defenses against each of these risks for participants who ordinarily felt most vulnerable to them. The findings provide the first evidence that the fundamental goal to feel safe in social connection can co-opt the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems as independent means for its pursuit. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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追求社会联系的安全可以调节风险调节、社会安全和行为免疫系统。

提出了一种新的目标系统模型，以帮助解释个人何时会保护自己免受社会联系固有的风险的影响。该模型假设，人们通过贬低拒绝朋友、信任与期望一致的关系以及避开有传染性的陌生人来满足感觉融入安全社会关系的目标——在这种关系中他们受到重视和保护，而不是面临受到伤害的风险。在假设的目标系统中，挫败在社会联系中感到安全的基本目标会使监管系统变得敏感，这些监管系统提供安全性，免受人际拒绝的风险（即风险监管系统），存在不确定性（即社会安全系统） ，或身体感染（即行为免疫系统）。相反，实现在社交联系中感到安全的基本目标会使这些自我保护系统变得不敏感。一项为期 3 周的实验性每日日记研究 (N = 555) 测试了模型假设。我们通过反复训练实验参与者将他们的浪漫伴侣与高度积极、平易近人的词语和图像联系起来，来实现在社交关系中感到安全的目标。然后，我们跟踪了实验参与者与对照参与者在日常生活中遇到社会排斥、意外行为或传染性疾病时如何警惕地保护自己。多层次分析显示，干预措施让通常感觉最容易受到这些风险影响的参与者学会了针对这些风险的自我保护防御。研究结果提供了第一个证据，表明在社会联系中感到安全的基本目标可以选择风险监管、社会安全和行为免疫系统作为其追求的独立手段。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。