Social mentalities
Competing and
social ranking
Conflict for
resources
Sexual
Desirability
Affiliative
Cooperation
Caregiving/
nurturing
Care
eliciting
Connectedness/
support/emotional care/
Organise – attention, physiology, reasoning, emotion, cognitions, actions
How illness can affect social motives
Competing and
social ranking
Sexual
Body/self less desirable, less able to
compete for resources. Shame at bodily
functions/changes and vigilance to
rejection as ‘not good enough’
Reduction in competitiveness
perspective about what really matters
Affiliative
Cooperation
Caregiving/
nurturing
Care
eliciting
More reliant on other
Skew in balance of give and take
Emotional memories triggered
Strengthened soothing/calmness, strength,
courage, connectedness through successful
navigation of threats