Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.

The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

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

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

To 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.