SCARF is a model by David Rock and stands for:

  1. Status – our relative importance to others.
  2. Certainty – our ability to predict the future.
  3. Autonomy – our sense of control over events.
  4. Relatedness – how safe we feel with others.
  5. Fairness – how fair we perceive the exchanges between people to be.

I picked this up from Koodarikuiskaaja podcast, episode 64 with Eeva Lennon.