The affiliation motive is particularly powerful when we feel threatened or anxious.

Well, Motives can be understood in terms of their evolved function. Obvious nonsocial ones are harm avoidance, food, and shelter-seeking. In the social domain, social motives require specialist systems for processing social signals to engage in interaction sequences and our body So, in many ways, brain processing is motive-dependent.13, Given that many it of our evolved motivational systems are competing for expression.