Oxytocin drives prosocial biases in favor of attractive people.
Current perspectives on attractiveness-related prosocial biases emphasize the contribution of evolutionarily shaped mating drives. Here, we extend these concepts by highlighting the pivotal role of the hypothalamic peptide oxytocin in augmenting the salience and rewarding value of social stimuli, including the partner's face, thereby fostering social bonding in general and the stability of monogamous pair bonds and offspring care in particular.
Department of Psychiatry,University of Bonn,53105 Bonn,Germanyrenehurlemann@icloud.comWolfgang.Maier@ukb.uni-bonn.dehttp://renehurlemann.squarespace.com/welcome/http://psychiatrie.uni-bonn.de/.
René
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Hurlemann
Division of Medical Psychology,University of Bonn,53105 Bonn,GermanyDirk-Scheele@gmx.dejohannes.schultz@gmail.comhttp://sites.google.com/site/johannesschultz/.
Dirk
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Scheele
Department of Psychiatry,University of Bonn,53105 Bonn,Germanyrenehurlemann@icloud.comWolfgang.Maier@ukb.uni-bonn.dehttp://renehurlemann.squarespace.com/welcome/http://psychiatrie.uni-bonn.de/.
Wolfgang
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Maier
Division of Medical Psychology,University of Bonn,53105 Bonn,GermanyDirk-Scheele@gmx.dejohannes.schultz@gmail.comhttp://sites.google.com/site/johannesschultz/.
Johannes
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Schultz
D000818:Animals; D015982:Bias; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies; D010121:Oxytocin; D010152:Pair Bond; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012919:Social Behavior
D010121:Oxytocin