Hormone Quote by Michael Finkel

“One’s desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary…

— Michael Finkel

“Oxytocin, a hormone and neuropeptide ... plays a major role in attachment processes and serves several purposes: It causes women to go into labor,…

— Amir Levine

“For starters, circulating oxytocin levels are elevated in couples when they’ve first hooked up. Furthermore, the higher the levels, the more physical affection, the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Norepinephrine and dopamine typically underpin “romantic love,” endorphins and oxytocin link mother to child and friend to friend, anandamide and serotonin deepen feelings of…

— Steven Kotler

“During times of physical separation, when touching and caressing is impossible, a deep, longing, almost a hunger, for the beloved can set in. We…

— Louann Brizendine

“Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia. In…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about detached people…

— Karen Horney

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

The funny thing about relationships (whatever type) is that the person which shows the least amount of emotions will usually have the most amount…

— Oketa Ojok

The funny thing about relationships is that the person which shows the least amount of emotions will usually have the most amount of control.

— Anonymous

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think…

— William Hazlitt