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  • 5 - Attachment, cooperation and rank: the evolution of the need for status and social support

  • from PART I - CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
  • Edited by T. S. Brugha, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Social Support and Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    31 October 2009
    Print publication:
    24 August 1995, pp 117-142

  • Summary

    This chapter explores an evolutionary view of social support. The models and theories of Sullivan, Leary and other interpersonal theorists suggest that there are two salient dimensions of relating. The first is concerned with rank/status. The second is concerned with affiliation/attachment. An evolutionary approach starts with the premise that most basic social dispositions, like those of rank and attachment, are core potentials for relating and have a long-evolved history. For humans, self-presentation is a central concern and is clearly linked with status in the eyes of others and the avoidance of shame. The evolutionary perspective suggests that helping and support-giving are influenced by the relatedness of the participants. Psychobiological research on the disruption of social bonds would seem the next logical step, and would give more data on the value of social support whilst offering new psychobiological insights.