Homeostasis is classically defined as a physiological process in which stable states are maintained by means of compensatory mechanisms (Cannon, 1929), coordinated adaptations across discrete neural circuits function to maintain “social homeostasis.” (Matthews & Tye, 2019)
A social homeostatic system consists of a detector to detect a change in the overall quantity / quality of social contact, a control center to compare this deviation to the set point of the individual, and an effector system to correct the change (Matthews & Tye, 2019).