Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.

Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.

How much you groom somebody else is more important than who grooms you.

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.

...I might continue to believe that there is no god even if it were proved that there is. A religious friend of mine once remarked that the concept of god is useful, because you can berate god during the bad times. But it is clear to me that I don't need to believe there is a god in order to berate him.