Editing Homeostasis (section)

==Other fields==
The term has come to be used in other fields, for example:

===Risk===
{{Main|Risk homeostasis}}
An [[actuary]] may refer to ''risk homeostasis'', where (for example) people who have anti-lock brakes have no better safety record than those without anti-lock brakes, because the former unconsciously compensate for the safer vehicle via less-safe driving habits. Previous to the innovation of anti-lock brakes, certain maneuvers involved minor skids, evoking fear and avoidance: Now the anti-lock system moves the boundary for such feedback, and behavior patterns expand into the no-longer punitive area. It has also been suggested that ecological crises are an instance of risk homeostasis in which a particular behavior continues until proven dangerous or dramatic consequences actually occur.<ref name="Risk">{{cite book|last1=Spencer|first1=Laci|title=Flotation: A Guide for Sensory Deprivation, Relaxation, & Isolation Tanks|date=2015|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-329-17375-0 |pages=29}}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

===Stress===
Sociologists and psychologists may refer to ''stress homeostasis'', the tendency of a population or an individual to stay at a certain level of [[stress (biology)|stress]], often generating artificial stresses if the "natural" level of stress is not enough.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z6TXCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|title=Flotation: A Guide for Sensory Deprivation, Relaxation, & Isolation Tanks|last=Spencer|first=Laci|date=29 May 2015|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-329-17375-0|language=en|access-date=11 October 2019|archive-date=3 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103045858/https://books.google.com/books?id=z6TXCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|url-status=live}}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

[[Jean-François Lyotard]], a postmodern theorist, has applied this term to societal 'power centers' that he describes in ''[[The Postmodern Condition]]'', as being 'governed by a principle of homeostasis,' for example, the scientific hierarchy, which will sometimes ignore a radical new discovery for years because it destabilizes previously accepted norms.

===Technology===
Familiar technological homeostatic mechanisms include:
* A [[thermostat]] operates by switching heaters or air-conditioners on and off in response to the output of a temperature sensor.
* [[Cruise control]] adjusts a car's throttle in response to changes in speed.<ref name="CarLife1965">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zO46AAAAMAAJ |page=46 |title=1966 American Motors |journal=Car Life |volume=12 |year=1965 |access-date=9 March 2015 |archive-date=2 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102052736/https://books.google.com/books?id=zO46AAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://auto.howstuffworks.com/cruise-control2.htm |last=Nice |first=Karim |title=How Cruise Control Systems Work |date=15 January 2001 |publisher=HowStuffWorks |access-date=9 March 2015 |archive-date=6 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306022245/https://auto.howstuffworks.com/cruise-control2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* An [[autopilot]] operates the steering controls of an aircraft or ship in response to deviation from a pre-set compass bearing or route.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harris|first1=William|title=How Autopilot Works|url=https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/autopilot.htm|website=HowStuffWorks.com|access-date=14 April 2018|date=10 October 2007|archive-date=15 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415124936/https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/autopilot.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Process control]] systems in a [[chemical plant]] or [[oil refinery]] maintain fluid levels, pressures, temperature, chemical composition, etc. by controlling heaters, pumps and valves.<ref>{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Douglas |title=Advanced automation technology reduces refinery energy costs |url=https://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-103/issue-37/special-report/advanced-automation-technology-reduces-refinery-energy-costs.html |website=Oil and Gas Journal |access-date=13 July 2018 |date=3 October 2005 |archive-date=13 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713074016/https://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-103/issue-37/special-report/advanced-automation-technology-reduces-refinery-energy-costs.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The [[centrifugal governor]] of a [[steam engine]], as designed by [[James Watt]] in 1788, reduces the throttle valve in response to increases in the engine speed, or opens the valve if the speed falls below the pre-set rate.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Maxwell|first=James Clerk|title=On Governors|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|volume= 16|year= 1868 |pages= 270–283 | doi = 10.1098/rspl.1867.0055 | jstor=112510|s2cid=51751195 |doi-access=}}</ref><ref name="ben93p48">{{Cite book| publisher = IET| isbn = 978-0-86341-299-8| last = Bennett| first = Stuart| title = A history of control engineering, 1930-1955| year = 1992| page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=VD_b81J3yFoC&pg=PA48 p. 48]
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===Society and culture===
The use of sovereign power, codes of conduct, religious and cultural practices and other dynamic processes in a society can be described as a part of an evolved homeostatic system of regularizing life and maintaining an overall equilibrium that protects the security of the whole from internal and external imbalances or dangers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Damasio|first1=Antonio |title=The Strange Order of Thinkgs: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures  |date=2018 |publisher=Pantheon Books |page=27|isbn=978-0-307-90876-6|location=New York|edition=e-book|author1-link=Antonio Damasio}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaughan-Williams|first1=Nick  |title=The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics  |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge- Taylor and Francis |chapter=Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and the ' nomos ' of contemporary political life |isbn=978-1-315-61275-1 |location=London |editor1-last=Prozorov |editor1-first=Sergei |editor2-last=Rentea |editor2-first=Simona|page=146}}</ref> Healthy [[The Civic Culture|civic cultures]] can be said to have achieved an optimal homeostatic balance between multiple contradictory concerns such as in the tension between respect for individual rights and concern for the public good,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lim |first1=Tae-Seop |last2=Ahn |first2=Seokhoon |title=Dialectics of culture and dynamic balancing between individuality and collectivity  |journal=Journal of Asian Pacific Communication |volume=25 |issue=1 |doi=10.1075/japc.25.1.04lim |pages=63–77 |year=2015}}</ref> or that between governmental effectiveness and responsiveness to the interests of citizens.<ref>{{cite journal| title= Rethinking the Origins of Civic Culture and Why it Matters for the Study of the Arab World | last1= Wickham |first1=Carrie Rosefsky |date= 2020| journal= Government and Opposition|volume= 55|issue=1| doi= 10.1017/gov.2019.12 | pages= 1–20| s2cid= 151139202 | doi-access= free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pavone |first1=Tammaso |date=2014 |title=Political Culture and Democratic Homeostasis: A Critical Review of Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba's The Civic Culture  |publisher=Princeton University |url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/tpavone/files/almond_verba-_the_civic_culture_critical_review_0.pdf |page=2 |access-date=2022-06-30}}</ref>