Oxytocin and Sociality

Oxytocin and human sociality are deeply intertwined. In this video, we’ll look at methods to increase oxytocin levels, how oxytocin promotes helpful behaviors toward people we like and hostile behaviors toward those we don’t, the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin, the oxytocin system’s neuroanatomy and the brain regions affected by oxytocin.

Chapters
00:00 Oxytocin and sociality (overview)
01:38 How to increase oxytocin
03:35 Oxytocin promotes prosocial behaviors of the in-group
05:28 Oxytocin can promote antisocial behaviors against out-groups
07:17 The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin
08:46 Oxytocin promotes empathy
09:25 The oxytocin system
10:26 Oxytocin affects brain regions involved in empathy and social closeness

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