Understanding and successfully navigating group dynamics and relationships proved to be crucial to our ancestors’ survival. Individuals who understood how to adapt to a diverse variety of social settings were prosperous in their pursuit of reproducing and bestowing their genes on to future generations. Belonging to a group provides many advantages such as communal resources, safety, and support, therefore when individuals sense their connection to a group is being jeopardized, they experience anxiety and engage in forms of self-regulation.