Social buffering: relief from stress and anxiety

By Takefumi Kikusui, J. T. Winslow, Y. Mori. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006

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Granny and the robots: ethical issues in robot care for the elderly (2012, background): “Kikusui et al. (2006) provide a wide ranging review of the phenomena of social buffering, whereby highly social mammals show better recovery from distress when in the company of conspecifics.”
Assessment of animal welfare through behavioural parameters in Iberian pigs in intensive and extensive conditions (2011, background): “This effect, nown as “social buffering” (Kikusui et al., 2006), has been bserved in several social species such as rats (Taylor, 981), sheep (Porter et al.”