Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.
Robert M. SapolskyTo out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone.
Robert M. SapolskyWhat happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.
Robert M. SapolskyGive lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.
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