The social homeostasis model suggests that the body detects a deficit in social contact and activates effector systems to seek social interaction.

“and so this maybe people brushed it off for a long time is just oh it's confusing this literature is inconsistent or maybe there's one model that makes it all make sense that is social homeostasis where you know you're used to getting this at a certain point and so my affector system gets activated I I detect that I'm alone it's I want more the deficits detected then my affector systems gets activated this and then I start spinning all the systems that try to get me back into contact”

“this idea that okay why is it with acute social isolation humans monkeys mice you know you acutely isolate the individual from the social group you reintroduce them to the social group rebound of pro-social interaction oh so happy to see you there's like all these affiliative interactions a Hu a burst of affiliative interactions”