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… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“A dog can be a ‘significant other’ as it infuses a magic fluid stream of oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all… — Omar EL KADMIRI Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“For starters, circulating oxytocin levels are elevated in couples when they’ve first hooked up. Furthermore, the higher the levels, the more physical… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
“The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“Moreover, Neumann believes the primary function of oxytocin is to protect the brain from the hormonal havoc caused by birth and parenting.… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
“Obviously, oxytocin and vasopressin are the grooviest hormones in the universe. Pour them into the water supply, and people will be more… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin is an ancient neurotransmitter chemical. Animal lineages much older than the mammals—amphibians, reptiles, worms, even the egg-dumping fish—all sport some version… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
